Wladyslaw Ukleja (1900-1978), "Spring in Silesia," 1949

oil, cardboard, 43 x 64 cm
Signed p.d.: W. Ukleja 49.
On the back two stickers: printed filled with typewritten text ZZPAP in Katowice: Annual Exhibition of Painting Sculpture / and Graphics 1949 / Author Wladyslaw Ukleja / Title Spring in Silesia / technique oil / (ink) size 64 x 43 cm,
and printed sticker of Exhibition Salon of ZZPAP in Gliwice with text in ink: Wystawa Plastyków Gliwickich / author Ukleja Władysław / address Arkońska 11 m 3/ Spring in Silesia / exhibition commissioner Szymańska (?).

Painter and graphic artist, after the 2nd war associated with the Silesian artistic environment. From 1922-1928 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Wladyslaw Jarocki and Ignacy Pienkowski. He is the author of numerous portraits, landscapes, views of architecture, since the 1950s he also painted paintings of sacred subjects. From 1945 he lived in Gliwice, where he worked as a conservator at the Gliwice museum.