Franciszek Bunsch is a son of a painter Adam Bunsch and Lundwika nee Kunaszowska. He was born in Bielsko in 1926. He married a painter and graphic artist Krystyna Gruchalska in 1950. The couple have a son Jacek who is a theatre director. Franciszek Bunsch studied painting under the guidance of Eugeniusz Eibisch and graphic art as a student of Prof. Andrzej Jurkiewicz, Prof. Ludwik Gardowski and Prof. Konrad Srzednicki at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Then he continued his education at the Akademie Vytvamych Umeni in Prague for two years.
   Between 1952 and 1965 he was an assistant to Prof. Ludwik Gardowski in the studio of wood engraving at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. After Prof.Gardowski's retirement he became the head of the studio which he managed until he retired in 1996. In the meantime, in 1990 he was awarded the title of a full professor. At the Academy he had different programme and organizational duties. He held the post of the Vice Rector twice in the years 1972-1975 and 1984-1987.
   He showed his works in various exhibitions in Poland (all-Poland and regional events) and abroad in such countries as: Belgium, Holland, the Soviet Union, Denmark, Norway, German Democratic Republic, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico, Mexico, France, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Canada, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Finland, Algeria, Tunisia, the USA, Island, Spain, German Federal Republic, Cuba, and Hungary.

Travels abroad...
   Travels abroad (fellowships, official and private in the company of his family, during which he visited numerous galleries and historical monuments):
   - Czechoslovakia,
   - Bulgaria,
   - Rumania,
   - Holland,
   - France,
   - Italy,
   - Finland,
   - Germany,
   - Russia,
   - Ukraine.

Works in the collections of...
  National Museum in Cracow and Warsaw,
   Museums in Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz and Lublin,
   Jagiellonian Library in Cracow,
   National Library in Warsaw,
   Museums in Skopie and Prague,
   Museum of Copper in Legnica.

Important studies and publication:
 "Dzieje nauczania grafiki w ASP w Krakowie w latach 1939-1968" (History of teaching graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1939 to 1968), Zeszyty Naukowe ASP w Krakowie (Scientific Fascicles of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow), 1972
   "Drzeworyt - podręcznik techniki" /część podręcznika ogólnego/ (Copperplate - textbook of techniques /part of the general textbook/), Zeszyty Naukowe ASP w Krakowie, (Scientific Fascicles of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow), 1972
   "Fotografia i obraz" /"Widzenie fotograficzne i widzenie malarskie'7 (A Photograph and a Painting/Photographic and painterly perception/) FOTOGRAFIA No 3/1984 and Wyd.Wydziału Grafiki ASP (Publication of the Department of Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow), 1986
   "Ksztatcenie grafików w krakowskiej ASP" (The teaching of graphic artists at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow), (introduction to a catalogue to the exhibition entitled "Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow), 1986
   "Krakowska szkoła grafiki" (Cracow School of Graphic Art.) /a polemic article/, Wyd.Wydziału Grafiki ASP in Cracow (Publication of the Department of Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow), 1986
   "Związki polskiego drzeworytu współczesnego z tradycja_ drzeworytu japońskiego" (Links between contemporary Polish and traditional Japanese wood engraving), an opening lecture at the MANGHA Centre of Japanese Art and Technics in Cracow, 1995 and Wyd. Wydziału Grafiki (Publication of the Department of Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow)
   "Pogmatwane pocza_tki" (The confused beginnings), an article in the catalogue to an
   exhibition: "The 1st Exhibition of Modern Art - 50 years later", Starmach Gallery, Cracow, 1998
   "0 pozytku nauki litemictwa" (About the advantages of teaching letterer's craft), lectures:
   Depts. of Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and Poznari, 1999, in Lodz, 2001.