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Dutch-American painter
Jan Domela
Born (1894-08-22 ) August 22, 1894Died August 1, 1973(1973-08-01) (aged 78)
Jan Marinus Domela (August 22, 1894 in
The Hague – August 1, 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 the Netherlands 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 was part of the production team who received an
Academy Honorary Award at the
11th Academy Awards for their efforts on the Paramount film
Spawn of the North .
[4] 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]
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Charlie Chaplin (1928)
Walt Disney (1932)
Shirley Temple (1934)
D. W. Griffith (1935)
The March of Time /
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Harold Rosson (1936)
Edgar Bergen /
W. Howard Greene /
Museum of Modern Art Film Library /
Mack Sennett (1937)
J. Arthur Ball /
Walt Disney /
Deanna Durbin and
Mickey Rooney /
Gordon Jennings ,
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Loyal Griggs ,
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Louis Mesenkop , Walter Oberst /
Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey /
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Jean Hersholt ,
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
George Pal (1943)
Bob Hope /
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Republic Studio,
Daniel J. Bloomberg , and the Republic Studio Sound Department /
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The House I Live In /
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Harold Russell /
Laurence Olivier /
Ernst Lubitsch /
Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
James Baskett /
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Shoeshine (1947)
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