Jan Domela

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Jan Marinus Domela (22 August 1894, in The Hague – 1 August 1973, in Santa Monica, California^[1]) was a Dutch-born American artist and illustrator.

Johan Domela Nieuwenhuis,^[2] also Jan Marinus Domela^[3] became interested in art while at boarding school in Switzerland.^[3] While visiting his sister in California he studied at the Los Angeles School of Illustration and Painting and the Mark Hopkins Art Institute; back in Holland in 1925, he attended the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam before completing his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris.^[3]

After returning to California in 1928 Dolema was made the chief matte painter at Paramount Studios, and was chief artist in the special effects department until 1968.^[3] Creating landscapes for most of the movies produced by Paramount for over thirty years, he received several Academy Awards for his work.^[3]

Domela exhibited his own landscape paintings of subjects such as the Monterey Peninsula, the California Sierras, the Alps, and Monhegan Island, at venues including the Los Angeles County Museum.^[3]

Notes

↑ Domela, Jan Marinus at the RKD databases
↑ The Oscar Site
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Belanger, p. 144

References

Belanger, Pamela J. Maine in America: American Art at the Farnsworth Art Museum. University Press of New England, 2000. ISBN 0-918749-08-5
The Oscar Site

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Name	Domela, Jan
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Short description	Dutch painter
Date of birth	22 August 1894
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Date of death	1 August 1973
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