Harm Kamerlingh Onnes
(Zoeterwoude 1893 - 1985 Voorschoten)
"Fishing near a bridge"
on canvas: 69 x 80,5 cm
signed with initials 'HKO' (l.r.); painted circa 1935
Provenance
from the collection of Willem Pieter Adriaan Ditmar (1910 -1981), well-known businessman and keen collector of works by Harm Kamerlingh Onnes and contemporaries; Mrs Nypels.
ExhibitionsNaarden, Raadhuis Naarden, 'Expositie van schilderijen van H.H. Kamerlingh Onnes', March-April 1969;
Voorschoten, Cultureel Centrum, 'H.H. Kamerlingh Onnes', April-May 1973, cat. no. 41;
Venlo, Museum van Bommel van Dam, May-June 1973, cat.no. 41.
Harm Kamerlingh Onnes was born into an artistic family. His first 'teachers' were his father Menso (1860-1925) and his uncle Floris Verster. He was active in Oegstgeest and Katwijk, but also travelled to Sumatra, China and Japan and through Europe and England. He met with Theo van Doesburg and in 1917 joined the movement De Stijl, undergoing the influence of Bart van der Leck. He was a very versatile artist, who also created glass windows and ceramics. He had very much a style of his own, always playful and full of humoristic observation, simple at first glance and very direct, without need for any complex conceptual observation.
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Category
Modern 20th -21st century
landscape