Anthony Heinsbergen

Anthony Heinsbergen (December 13, 1894 – June 14, 1981) was an American muralist considered the foremost designer of North American movie theatre interiors.

Born Antoon Heinsbergen in Haarlem (the Netherlands), he emigrated when his intimates to the United States in 1906 where they arranged in Los Angeles. Heinsbergen began painting while nevertheless a boy; and, as a minor man he worked as an apprentice painter and was one of the first students to accept formal training from Mrs. Nelbert Chouinard at her Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. His Place of interest in which he developed a Famous expertise was the painting of murals and in 1922 he went into matter for himself. He was wealthy in obtaining a few commissions out of which he earned considerable tribute that led to a number of major contracts in and roughly Los Angeles most notably considering the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel and in 1928 a municipal dealing out contract for the supplementary Los Angeles City Hall. During this time, his produce an effect came to the attention of theatre mogul Alexander Pantages who hired him to work upon one of his buildings. The compliment he received for this decree opened the doors to jobs at higher than twenty Pantages theatres and helped Heinsbergen become a major national contractor for theatre murals.

Heinsbergen's company grew to hire more than one hundred and eighty decorative painters involved with a wide variety of wall and ceiling murals for corporate offices, churches, synagogues, civic auditoriums, libraries and other ornate structures of the era. However, the Heinsbergen publicize is mainly partnered to his theatre murals thus of the more than seven hundred and fifty he created throughout North America during the theatre industry's period of rushed growth. High-profile acquit yourself of this type includes murals for the Wiltern Theatre, the Oakland Paramount Theater, the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro, California, and the United Artists flagship theatre in downtown Los Angeles, plus the vaulted ceiling of the city's Park Plaza Hotel which can be seen in the commencement sequences of the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart.

Anthony Heinsbergen built a house in the Los Angeles district of Pacific Palisades on the south point of view in the Santa Monica Mountains. Semi-retired by the 1970s considering his son Anthony, Jr. (1929–2004), took on pinnacle of the day-to-day executive of the company, the elderly Anthony Heinsbergen nonetheless remained supple as a frequent consultant for theatre restoration projects until his death in 1981, in Los Angeles, at the age of eighty-six.