Background
Bossányi was born in a small village in southern Austria-Hungary and educated in Budapest.
Bossányi was born in a small village in southern Austria-Hungary and educated in Budapest.
Académie Julian, Royal College of Artist
He then started a new career as a notable stained glass artist in England. In World War I he was interned for five years in France. After the war he became a notable painter and sculptor in Lübeck and (1929) in Hamburg.
A major work from this period is his fountain in Bad Segeberg.
1934 he left Nazi Germany for England. Here he specialized with remarkable success in stained glass.
He made stained glass windows for the University of London (Goldsmith" Library in the Senate House Library), Tate Gallery ("The Angel Blesses the Women Washing the Clothes"), the Victoria and Albert Museum ("Noli me tangere"), as well as cathedral glass for the York Minster, the memorial chapel for President Woodrow Wilson in Washington National Cathedral in Washington District of Columbia and Canterbury Cathedral. The Stained Glass Museum at Ely Cathedral owns two windows Bossanyi made in his last year in Hamburg and which he took with him into emigration.
Behnhaus, Lübeck - paintings.