Painter. Menso Kamerligh Onnes was a painter of The Hague movement, which was a group of like-mined Dutch artists working or living between 1860 to 1900 in The Hague. His style changed greatly over time. Originally, his work was influenced by the Dutch Impressionists, but about 1880 he developed landscapes in the style of The Hague School. In hope of generating a younger audience, he changed to cityscapes and did still lifes, such as bright-colored flowers, pieces of fruit, green bottles on a window seal, or even eggs in a glass dish. As a portraitist, he painted many of the professionals at Leiden University, including a couple of Nobel Prize recipients. Over the years, those paintings have been collected in the Menso Kamerligh Onnes Room at the Academic Historical Museum in Leiden. His painting of his sister, "Jenny," hangs in the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden. Menso is the brother of 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the brother-in-law of painter Floris Verster. His paintings are very popular with the collectors. In 2015 at Christie's Auction House, his watercolor "Indian Cress" sold for a little over $14,000. He married and the couple had a daughter and a son, Harm, who became noted for his ceramics and paintings, including a portrait of Albert Einstein.
Painter. Menso Kamerligh Onnes was a painter of The Hague movement, which was a group of like-mined Dutch artists working or living between 1860 to 1900 in The Hague. His style changed greatly over time. Originally, his work was influenced by the Dutch Impressionists, but about 1880 he developed landscapes in the style of The Hague School. In hope of generating a younger audience, he changed to cityscapes and did still lifes, such as bright-colored flowers, pieces of fruit, green bottles on a window seal, or even eggs in a glass dish. As a portraitist, he painted many of the professionals at Leiden University, including a couple of Nobel Prize recipients. Over the years, those paintings have been collected in the Menso Kamerligh Onnes Room at the Academic Historical Museum in Leiden. His painting of his sister, "Jenny," hangs in the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden. Menso is the brother of 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the brother-in-law of painter Floris Verster. His paintings are very popular with the collectors. In 2015 at Christie's Auction House, his watercolor "Indian Cress" sold for a little over $14,000. He married and the couple had a daughter and a son, Harm, who became noted for his ceramics and paintings, including a portrait of Albert Einstein.
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