Born in Ober-Wilkau bei Namysłów, Provinz Schlesien, Kunowski, a director's son from Breslau, attended the Lateinschule in Halle,[2] first completed scientific studies, then artistic training at the academies in Breslau and Munich, where he registered in 1895 as a pupil of the Malschule Marr.
After leaving Berlin, Heinrich Richter-Berlin founded a painting school at the same address and continued to teach the System L. v. Kunowski there.
Durch Kunst zum Leben consisted of several individual volumes, the first two of which were entitled Gesetz Freiheit und Sittlichkeit des künstlerischen Schaffens and Ein Volk von Genies These two books were published by Rudolf Steiner in the Mitteilungen aus dem Verein zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus 1901, II.
Steiner considered much of these writings immature and nothing newly conceived, but found the idealism expressed in them "refreshing in the highest degree.
"[6] Whereas Kunowski's first work could have been misused to spread antipathy towards the people and the races, Steiner now noted with satisfaction that the author spoke out decidedly against Antisemitism and called on all peoples to create art - even if under the aegis of the Germans, as he proved with a Kunowski quote: "We Germans are determined that we reserve the form of the world to be remodelled for all peoples, that we summon them all to carry out the work, above all the Romans and Semites, to whom we owe infinite things, with whom, united in the infinite, we shall also extend the finiteness of the earthly together.