He was born in Batuan in 1926. known as the Batuan School painter who preferred to paint the colossal ngaben ritual. Aside of illustrating other ceremonies as the subject of his paintings, he also paints the evil creatures of the dark world. In several works, he described Kala Metria, the evil spirit who disturbed the spiritual life the human beings. Kundel’s painting on ngaben are scenic. But when he illustrated the demons and other, his works are expressively frightening. In painting, he received tutorial from I Made Djata and Ida Bagus Made Widja. He intensively paints since 1939. his paintings where interrupted when he was asked to team up with on art dealer. This has been the consequence of growing tourism bushiness in Bali. During 1960. he sourced paintings for sale, a job that he did around 25 years.