Adam BUNSCH, Red Roofs

Watercolor, gouache, paper, 10 x 12 cm, signed l.d.: Adam Bunsch 1962.

Painter and printmaker, student of the Vienna Academy and the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts in Mehoffer's studio (1917-1921), student of philosophy at 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 and 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