Emma Kunz

Emma Kunz, also nicknamed Penta (; 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.

Early life 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.

Career 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 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.

At the time of her death, Kunz had left behind a substantial body of work of 400 drawings.

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.

The Emma Kunz Centre was founded in 1986 by Anton C. Meier, a relative of Kunz's, to preserve Kunz's research findings and art. The Emma Kunz Museum opened in 1991.

Exhibitions Der Fall von Emma Kunz (The Case of Emma Kunz), 1973 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin, Santa Monica Museum of Art (2005). . 55th Venice Biennale, 'The Encyclopedic Palace' Central Pavilion curated by Massimiliano Gioni Emma Kunz: Visionary Drawings, Serpentine Galleries, 2019 Emma Kunz Cosmos - A Visionary in Dialogue with Contemporary Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2021

Publications Leben (Life) (1930) - Poetry by Emma Kunz The Miracle of Creative Revelation (1953, self-published) - by Emma Kunz New Methods of Drawing (1953, self-published) - by Emma Kunz Emma Kunz (1976) - by Heini & Harald Szeemann & Thomas Ring. Widmer Emma Kunz 1892-1963. Forscherin, Naturheilpraktikerin, Künstlerin (1994) - by Anton C. Meier Emma Kunz. Artist, Researcher, Healer (1998) 3 x An Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma Af Klint, Emma Kunz and Agnes Martin (2005) - by Catherine De Zegher World Receivers: Georgiana Houghton - Hilma af Klint - Emma Kunz (2019) Zahl, Rhythmus, Wandlung : Emma Kunz und Gegenwartskunst (2020) - by Régine Bonnefoit Emma Kunz A Visionary in Dialogue With Contemporary Art (2021) - Edited by Yasmin Afschar