Anthony Heinsbergen
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Anthony Heinsbergen | |
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| Born | Antoon Heinsbergen December 13, 1894 |
| Died | June 14, 1981 (aged 86) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Known for | Interior design of cinemas |
| Style | Murals |
Anthony Heinsbergen (December 13, 1894 – June 14, 1981) was a Dutch American
movie theatre interiors.[1]
Biography
Born Antoon Heinsbergen in
Beverly-Wilshire Hotel and in 1928 a municipal government contract for the new Los Angeles City Hall. During this time, his work came to the attention of theatre mogul Alexander Pantages
who hired him to work on one of his buildings. The praise he received for this work opened the doors to jobs at more than twenty Pantages theatres and helped Heinsbergen become a major national contractor for theatre murals.
Heinsbergen's company grew to employ 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 name is mainly linked to his theatre murals as a result of the more than seven hundred and fifty he created throughout North America during the theatre industry's period of rapid growth. High-profile work of this type includes murals for the
San Pedro, California, the Metro Theatre in San Francisco,[2] 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 opening sequences of the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart
.
Anthony Heinsbergen built a home in the Los Angeles district of
Pacific Palisades on the south slope in the Santa Monica Mountains
. Semi-retired by the 1970s when his son Anthony, Jr. (1929–2004), took over the day-to-day management of the company, the elderly Anthony Heinsbergen nonetheless remained active as a frequent consultant for theatre restoration projects until his death in 1981, in Los Angeles, at the age of eighty-six.
See also
- Bell Communications Around the Globe (1961), Los Angeles
- Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building
References
- ^ McLellan, Dennis (2004-02-08). "Anthony T. Heinsbergen, 74; Restored the Interior Splendor of Landmarks". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ "Metro Theatre in San Francisco, CA". Cinema Treasures. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
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