Harm Kamerlingh Onnes

Harm Kamerlingh Onnes (born February 15, 1893 in Zoeterwoude , Province of South Holland , Kingdom of the Netherlands ; † May 20, 1985 in Leiden , Netherlands) was a Dutch artist who became known as a painter , graphic artist , glass artist and ceramic artist.

Life

At the age of 18, his father, Menso Kamerlingh Onnes , who was an artist , allowed him to pursue an artist career. In his early years from 1915 to 1925, his work was influenced by Modernisme . He only used abstract shapes in his stained glass windows from 1918 in the de Vonk holiday home of the architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud in Noordwijkerhout . In 1922 and 1923 he toured the Republic of China , Japan and the Dutch East Indies .

Otherwise, Onnes worked traditionally and objectively until old age. During a visit to Piet Mondrian's Paris studio , he said that abstract art was not for him.

Onnes stained glass windows in the auditorium of the University of Leiden and his paintings by Albert Einstein and Paul Ehrenfest as well as the laboratory of his uncle, the Nobel Prize winner Heike Kamerlingh Onnes are well known . He made some designs for stained glass windows depicting the work of Dutch natural scientists such as Pieter Zeeman and Hendrik Lorentz . The Dutch Post Office 's children's stamp from 1929 was designed by Onnes.

Onnes lived and worked in Leiden, where his uncle, the artist Floris Vester , also worked.

literature

• Dirk Buiskool (ed.): De reis van Harm Kamerlingh Onnes: Brieven uit de Oost 1922-1923 , Verloren, Hilversum 1999, ISBN 90-65500537 .

Web links

• Pictures of works about Hendrik Lorentz (nl.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden