'A new look. Highlights from the collection of Singer Laren' | Exhibition

'A New Look. Highlights from the Singer Laren collection' highlights iconic collectors, the role of women and personal stories behind the works.

In addition, the museum's largest sub-collection, consisting of works on paper, receives more attention. A new look presents audience favourites and rarely shown works in an entirely new way. 

Iconic collectors
Singer Laren is inextricably linked to the artists' village of Laren, where a flourishing and innovative art climate prevailed some 150 years ago. Anna Singer-Brugh founded the museum here in 1956 in memory of her husband, the painter William Henry Singer, using their art collection as a basis. The Singer collection has been supplemented over the years by purchases and large donations from the Groeneveld-Woerlee couple, Renée Smithuis and Els Blokker-Verwer, among others. These additions have shaped Singer Laren's character as a collector's museum, allowing it to display the diversity of Dutch modernism and impressionism, some of it of Laren origin, at a high level.