Artist. He received world-wide notoriety in the 20th century as a Polish painter, graphic artist, art educator, and playwright, but excelled in designing beautiful stained glass windows. Forty Polish churches are adorned with his colorful stained glass windows as well as the Polish Museum in Warsaw. His father was a noted sculptor, Alojzy Bunsch. At the beginning of World War I, he left Poland for Austria to study at the University of Vienna and briefly attended the Academy of Arts. In March of 1915, he was drafted into the Austrian Army, thus his education was halted. While in the military, he graduated from the School of Artillery Reserved Officers in 1915 and from 1918, he was stationed at Sopron in Hungary and later at Krakow in Poland. In 1917 he began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow along with philosophy at the Jagiellonian University. Continuing his military service, he joined the First Artillery Regiment of Legion in 1918 and fought in the Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Bolshevik War. He was awarded the Cross of Valor twice and promoted to second lieutenant before being discharged in 1921. The same year, he received his teacher's certificate accepting a position at the State Industrial School in Bielsko teaching drawing. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the field of painting and received a degree in philosophy from Jagiellonian University. He had his debut art exhibition in 1921. Using pastels, watercolors, oil-on-canvas, and ink, he was a portraitist, painter of flora and fauna, and landscapes; he eventually held exhibits around the world. He often used the technique of “woodcut” to make a piece. One of his most noted paintings is his 1929 oil-on-canvas, “Rifle Bullet,” showing a World War I soldier climbing out of the trenches and being killed; this painting is on exhibition in the Warsaw Museum. The Polish Museum in Chicago houses his pieces from the New York World's Fair of 1939. In 1922 he married and had three sons and a daughter; two of his sons followed their talented grandfather and father into artistic careers. With an interest in the theater, he wrote 30 plays with six being published, and designed costumes and scenery. In “Pope John Paul II: The Biography” by Tad Szuic, the author states act one of Bunsch's play “He Came to the Holy Land” was recited word for word by a young Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, on Christmas Eve of 1947. Once again war interrupted his career as he fought to defend Poland in September of 1939 from the Nazi invasion. Leaving for Hungary with his unit, he was imprisoned for a short period before joining with the Polish Army on French soil in 1940. During this time, his family was living under Nazi occupation in war-torn Krakow. When France fell to the Nazi forces in June of 1940, he escaped to England. While in England, he painted portraits of Polish military figures; presented Queen Elizabeth with drawings, which can be found in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle; and designed stained glass windows and created paintings for St. Casimir Roman Catholic Church in London. In 1945 after the war, he returned to Krakow. He taught at the State Industrial School in Krakow, where he was dismissed in 1951 for political reasons of not agreeing with Communist rule. He lost his job, but colleagues lost their lives. In 1967 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland by Polonia Restituta. The Posk Gallery in London held a one-man show for him in the winter of 2012. Today, his paintings are being sold at auction for prices as high as $3,000. He was a very talented man in many areas of art.