Wladyslaw UKLEJA (1900-1978), Flirt. Still life with monkey and bear, 1964

oil, cardboard, 48 x 38 cm,
Signed p.d.: W. Ukleja 64.
On the back author's description: Wladyslaw Ukleja / "Flirt" / dimension 38 x 48 cm.

Painter and printmaker, after World War II associated with the Silesian artistic community. Between 1922 and 1928 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Władysław Jarocki and Ignacy Pieńkowski. He is the author of numerous portraits, landscapes and views of architecture, and from the 1950s also painted paintings of sacred subjects. From 1945 he lived in Gliwice, where he worked as a conservator at the Gliwice museum.