Alfred Lenica (1899-1977) - Polish painter, father of Jan Lenica and Danuta Konwicka, father-in-law of Tadeusz Konwicki. He studied at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Poznań and at the Conservatory of Music. He deepened his painting interests by studying at the Private Institute of Fine Arts led by Adam Hannytkiewicz. In the 1930s, he created figurative paintings, mainly still lifes and landscapes, inspired by cubism. The war period proved to be a turning point in his career. He became part of the Krakow avant-garde centered around Tadeusz Kantor. In 1947, he co-founded the avant-garde group 4F+R. After years of experimentation and exploration, Lenica increasingly gravitated towards abstraction and tachism. In 1948, he participated in the First Exhibition of Modern Art in Krakow organized by Kantor. He actively participated in the socialist realist movement, creating many realistic paintings in the early 1950s. During that time, he painted "Young Bierut among Workers," "Pstrowski and Comrades," "Party Admission," and "Red Poster." He also attempted to combine formal experiments with ideologically engaged themes for his own use, as seen in the work "We Are Losing Our Daily Wages" from 1953, where he used collage and monotype. Lenica traveled extensively - at the invitation of the United Nations, he stayed in Geneva at the turn of 1959/60, where he created the wall painting "Three Elements" (Water, Fire, and Love) at the organization's headquarters. He maintained constant contact with the domestic artistic avant-garde, exhibited with the Krakow Group, participated in most of the plein-airs in Osieki near Koszalin, and took part in the symposium "Art in a Changing World" in Puławy in 1966.