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Emma Kunz
Emma Kunz, also nicknamed Penta (Swiss Standard German: [ˈɛmə kʊnts]; 23 May 1892 - 16 January 1963), was a Swiss healer, researcher and artist. She published three books covering poetry, telepathy and prophetry and several geometrical drawings. The Emma Kunz Center in Waldstatt, Switzerland houses her collections.
Kunz was born 23 May 1892 in Brittnau, Switzerland to Stephan Oswald Kunz, a destitute hand weaver, and Rosina Kunz (née Gubelmann). Three of her siblings died during childhood and her brother and father committed suicide when she was 17 years old.
Kunz was not a trained artist; she is characterized as an outsider artist. Inspired by spiritual evolution, she divined with a pendulum and created her drawings by radiesthesia. Kunz did not intend for her works to be seen in a fine arts context; none of her works were titled or dated. Kunz instead recorded the medical meanings of her works in books.
Kunz began creating large-scale drawings on graph paper with pencil, colored pencil and oil pastels starting in 1938. She considered her drawings to be holograms that could be experienced multidimensionally.
In 1942 in Würenlos, Kunz discovered "AION A," a healing rock. The rock is still mined from the same place, and is sold in Switzerland.
At the time of her death, Kunz had left behind a substantial body of work of 400 drawings. Kunz's first exhibition in the early 1970s, posthumously.
The UK's Serpentine Gallery presented Kunz's second solo exhibition in 2019; the exhibition marked Kunz's first solo showing in the United Kingdom. For the exhibition, artist Christodoulos Panayiotou produced stone benches quarried from AION A.
Said one scholar, in comparing her to other women artists, "Hilma af Klint, Agnes Martin, and Emma Kunz approached geometric abstraction not as formalism, but as a means of structuring philosophical, scientific, and spiritual ideas. Using line, geometry, and the grid, each of these artists created diagrammatic drawings of their exploration of complex belief systems and restorative practices."
Emma Kunz
Emma Kunz, also nicknamed Penta (Swiss Standard German: [ˈɛmə kʊnts]; 23 May 1892 - 16 January 1963), was a Swiss healer, researcher and artist. She published three books covering poetry, telepathy and prophetry and several geometrical drawings. The Emma Kunz Center in Waldstatt, Switzerland houses her collections.
Kunz was born 23 May 1892 in Brittnau, Switzerland to Stephan Oswald Kunz, a destitute hand weaver, and Rosina Kunz (née Gubelmann). Three of her siblings died during childhood and her brother and father committed suicide when she was 17 years old.
Kunz was not a trained artist; she is characterized as an outsider artist. Inspired by spiritual evolution, she divined with a pendulum and created her drawings by radiesthesia. Kunz did not intend for her works to be seen in a fine arts context; none of her works were titled or dated. Kunz instead recorded the medical meanings of her works in books.
Kunz began creating large-scale drawings on graph paper with pencil, colored pencil and oil pastels starting in 1938. She considered her drawings to be holograms that could be experienced multidimensionally.
In 1942 in Würenlos, Kunz discovered "AION A," a healing rock. The rock is still mined from the same place, and is sold in Switzerland.
At the time of her death, Kunz had left behind a substantial body of work of 400 drawings. Kunz's first exhibition in the early 1970s, posthumously.
The UK's Serpentine Gallery presented Kunz's second solo exhibition in 2019; the exhibition marked Kunz's first solo showing in the United Kingdom. For the exhibition, artist Christodoulos Panayiotou produced stone benches quarried from AION A.
Said one scholar, in comparing her to other women artists, "Hilma af Klint, Agnes Martin, and Emma Kunz approached geometric abstraction not as formalism, but as a means of structuring philosophical, scientific, and spiritual ideas. Using line, geometry, and the grid, each of these artists created diagrammatic drawings of their exploration of complex belief systems and restorative practices."