Dunikovsky was born in Krakow in 1875. When he was twelve years old, his family moved to Warsaw. From 1896 he studied at the Krakow Academy of Arts . Pupil of Alfred Daun,Constanty Lyashchka , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Jan Stanislavsky.
He moved to Warsaw, where he was appointed to the post of professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. In 1905, he shot the painter Vaclav Pavlishak during an argument, but escaped prosecution.
From 1910 in Krakow, then in Paris, he served for one year in the French Foreign Legion. In 1922 he returned to Poland and was appointed professor of sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.
While working at the Academy, he taught many Polish sculptors:Józef Gosławski , Maryan Konieczny.
Since 1940 he was a prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1945-1955 he was a professor in Krakow, in 1955-1959 in Warsaw, since 1959 in Wroclaw.
