Harm Henrick
Kamerlingh Onnes (1893 –1985) was a Dutch portrait painter and ceramist who
also produced designs for stamps and stained-glass windows. He is best known
for the small, humorous vignettes of everyday life.
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| Self Portrait |
In his early
years from 1915 to 1925 his work was influenced by modernism. In 1918 he
designed a number of abstract stained-glass windows for the Spark House, which
was designed by Jacobus Oud. From 1925, he started to take the everyday reality
as his subject, and from that time he only made figurative works.
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| Farmer by the Fire |
It was after a
visit to the studio of Mondrian, that he had realized that abstract art was not
for him. Some of his designs for stained-glass windows have discoveries of
physicists Pieter Zeeman and Hendrik Lorentz as a subject. One of these
stained-glass windows contained a portrait of Hendrik Lorentz and formulas
devised by him that describe the behavior of electrons. Other stained-glass
windows show the instruments to measure the splitting of spectral lines of
atoms under the influence of a magnetic field is measured, the so-called Zeeman
effect. He also made portraits of the physicists Albert Einstein and Paul
Ehrenfest.
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| The found object |
Harm Kamerlingh
Onnes characterized his artistic work with the phrase "just messing
around".
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| The gardeners of Endegeest |
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