Adam BUNSCH, Paris

oil, canvas, 51.5 × 34 cm, signed and dated l.d.: Adam Bunsch 1928 Paris. On the loincloth, a sticker from the art salon of Kazimierz Wojciechowski in Cracow.

Painter and printmaker, student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in Mehoffer's studio (1917-1921), student of philosophy at the Jagiellonian University. He traveled to Italy, Vienna and Paris. He spent the interwar years in Bielsk, maintaining constant contact with the artistic life of Krakow and Lviv. He took part in the September campaign, during the war he fought in the ranks of the Polish army in France and England. After returning to Poland, he settled in Cracow. His painting refers to Young Poland traditions, in addition to numerous portraits and genre scenes, he painted religious compositions, war motifs, symbolic scenes. He designed a set of stained glass windows in Katowice's St. Mary's Church. He was very successful in woodcuts, thematically and stylistically inspired by Japanese art