Antoon Heinsbergen

Antoon Heinsbergen (Dutch-American, 1894–1989)

A panoramic view of early twentieth-century Paris with early automobiles, charabancs and pedestrians filling the boulevards converging on the Paris Opera beneath sunny blue skies.

Painter and theatrical designer, Antoon Heinsbergen immigrated to Los Angeles as a small boy and first studied at the Chouinard Art School and the Otis Art Institute. He subsequently became sought after as a decorator of theaters and, working with a crew of 185, designed and painted wall and ceiling decorations in over seven hundered theaters in the United States and Canada. In his leisure, he continued to pursue his fine art career, painting portraits, landscapes, urban scenes and figural studies. Antoon Heinsbergen's work is held in numerous permanent institutional collections including the Orinda Theater (California), Orpheum Theater (San Francisco), the Bowers Museum (Santa Ana, CA) and the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento), among others.

Signed, verso, "A Heinsbergen" for Antoon Heinsbergen; inscribed "Painted in Paris from the top floor of the Grand Hotel Paris" and dated 1941.

Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, p. 508; et al.