Jan Domela

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

Johan Domela Nieuwenhuis, also Jan Marinus Domela became interested in art while at boarding researcher in Switzerland. 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.

After returning to California in 1928 Dolema was made the chief matte painter at Paramount Studios, and was chief performer in the special effects department until 1968. Creating landscapes for most of the movies produced by Paramount for higher than thirty years, he normal several Academy Awards for his work.

Domela was share of the production team who received an Academy Honorary Award at the 11th Academy Awards for their efforts upon the Paramount film Spawn of the North. 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.