format:26x22 cm light frame,watercolor/gouache,signed at the bottom E.Ukleja
Ukleja was the son of an oil driller. He spent his childhood in Utynia, Stanislawow and Baku. Later he served in the cavalry. He then took up studies at the State School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry in Cracow (vocational class - graphic design). In 1927 he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he studied in the studios of Miłosz Kotarbiński and Władysław Skoczylas. At the same time he worked, lecturing at vocational schools in Lodz and working as a teacher. During World War II, he was in Warsaw, where he organized secret teaching; he also stayed there during the Warsaw Uprising, and after its collapse was expelled to a transit camp in Pruszkow[1]. After World War II, he was a lecturer at the State Female Industrial School in Lodz[3] and was active in the Association of Polish Artists[1].
