# Martha Cunz artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/martha-cunz/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:58:13.394Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Swiss
- Movements: Jugendstil-era, Japanese-influenced color woodcut context
- Common media: Woodcut, Lithography, Drawing, Painting

## Portrait

![Martha Cunz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Martha_Cunz%2C_Selbstportr%C3%A4t.jpg/1280px-Martha_Cunz%2C_Selbstportr%C3%A4t.jpg)
Martha Cunz Nutzungsrechtinhaber: Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum St. Gallen · CC BY-SA 3.0 ch
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martha_Cunz,_Selbstportr%C3%A4t.jpg

## About Martha Cunz

Martha Cunz (1876–1961) was a Swiss painter and printmaker born in St. Gallen. Authority records identify her especially with woodcut, while multilingual reference records also describe a practice that included lithography, drawing, and painting. She studied in Munich and Paris; the IdRef authority note names Merson and Lucien Simon among her Paris teachers. Cunz is most often encountered in discussions of the modern color woodcut and its Jugendstil-era, Japanese-influenced context. A linked scholarly publication specifically catalogues her woodcuts within that field, making works on paper central to her documented legacy. Collectors may therefore encounter individual woodcuts and lithographs as well as drawings and paintings. Her identity is anchored across Wikidata, VIAF, IdRef, Getty ULAN, and national-library authority records, supporting reliable cataloguing. The available sources provide little detail about recurring subjects, named series, editions, or individual auction results, so those points require work-specific verification.

## Common works and media

Martha Cunz is chiefly associated with woodcuts, including color woodcut work connected with the Jugendstil-era interest in Japanese-influenced printmaking. Lithographs, drawings, and paintings may also appear in auction and appraisal contexts. The collected sources do not establish recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, or a hierarchy among these work types.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming the artist identity and work type: the collected sources document Cunz as a woodcut specialist and also associate her with lithography, drawing, and painting. These categories should not be compared interchangeably. A documented match to the scholarly catalogue of her woodcuts may assist identification, but the present source pack does not establish catalogue status for any particular object. Market analysis should use public auction records that closely match the medium and object type, recording sale dates and realized prices when available. No artist-specific price trend, scarcity claim, premium, or forecast is supported by the collected evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23930508
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/59155659/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/032277911
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500055959
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Cunz
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Cunz
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Cunz
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/martha-cunz/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martha_Cunz,_Selbstportr%C3%A4t.jpg