Jan Domela
January Domela (* 22. August 1894 in The Hague ; † 1. August 1973 in Santa Monica , California , actually Johan Domela Nieuwenhuis , and Jan Marinus Domela ) was from the Netherlands originating American artist and illustrator .
Career
Jan Domela became interested in art in a Swiss boarding school. He then studied at the Los Angeles School of Illustration and Painting and the Mark Hopkins Art Institute . Back in the Netherlands, he went to the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 1925 before finishing his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris .
After Dolema returned to California in 1928, he became chief matte painter at Paramount Studios , where he was chief artist in the special effects department until 1968. He created numerous landscape creations for numerous Paramount films over a period of over 30 years and received several Academy Awards for them .
Domela showed his own landscape paintings with subjects such as the Monterey Peninsula , the Palisades of the Sierra Nevada , the Alps and Monhegan Island at exhibitions, including in the Los Angeles County Museum .
Filmography (selection)
- 1938: Her Jungle Love
- 1938: Pirates in Alaska (Spawn of the North)
- 1939: Union Pacific
- 1940: Hell of the South Seas (Typhoon)
- 1941: I Wanted Wings
- 1941: Aloma, the daughter of the South Seas (Aloma of the South Seas)
- 1942: Pirates in the Caribbean Sea (Reap the Wild Wind)
- 1943: Whom the Bell Tolls (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
- 1944: Here Come the Waves
- 1945: A Medal for Benny
- 1945: A Lady with a Past (Kitty)
- 1945: The Road to Utopia (Road to Utopia)
- 1946: The Virginian
- 1946: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (The Strange Love of Martha Ivers)
- 1947: The Unconquered
- 1948: Knight Hank, the Terror of the Round Table
(alternatively: A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ) - 1949: The Great Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
- 1949: Samson and Delilah
- 1951: Doomsday (When Worlds Collide)
- 1953: War of the Worlds (The War of the Worlds)
- 1955: The Conquest of Space
- 1956: The Ten Commandments (The Ten Commandments)
- 1960: The Lady and the Killer (Heller in Pink Tights)
- 1965: The Greatest Story Ever Told (The Greatest Storyx Ever Told)
literature
- Belanger, Pamela J. Maine in America: American Art at the Farnsworth Art Museum . University Press of New England, 2000. ISBN 0-918749-08-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Domela, Jan Marinus ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the RKD databases
- ↑ a b c d e f Belanger, p. 144.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Domela, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nieuwenhuis, Johan Domela (real name); Domela, Jan Marinus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st August 1973 |
| Place of death | Santa Monica , California |