Singer Laren
Established | 1956 |
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Location | Oude Drift 1 Laren, the Netherlands |
Type | Art museum |
Director | Jan Rudolph de Lorm[1] |
Website | https://www.singerlaren.nl/en/ |
Singer Laren is a museum and concert hall located in the center of Laren, the Netherlands. The museum is devoted to presenting and preserving the collection of the American artist William Henry Singer (1868–1943) and his wife Anna (1878–1962).
Laren School
In 1954 Singer's widow founded the Singer Memorial Foundation, and in 1956 the museum designed by the Dutch architect Wouter Hamdorff (1890 - 1965) was opened in an expansion of their home, "De Wilde Zwanen,"on the Oude Drift, with a new concert hall attached. An architecture competition for reconstruction of the complex was organized in 2012. The winners —young architects Sanne Oomen and denieuwegeneratie—were commissioned the project. The final design was prepared by Oomen Ontwerpt, Oscar Vos and Thomas Dieben (denieuwegeneratie, later KRFT) in collaboration with VDNDP architecten. Reconstruction was completed in 2017.
The museum hosts the Singer collection of paintings and sculpture and artifacts, by members of the Laren School, the
On the morning of 30 March 2020,[4] a painting, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen by Vincent van Gogh, on loan from the Groninger Museum, was stolen while the institution was closed to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] The painting was reported as recovered in September 2023.[6]
References
- ^ "Dutch Museum Says Van Gogh Painting Stolen in Overnight Raid". The New York Times. Associated Press. 30 March 2020. Archived from the original on 31 March 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ William H. Singer, Jr. (1868–1943) by Robert E. Prezler, Washington County of Fine Arts.
- ^ Museum website
- ^ Siegal, Nina (28 May 2020). "What to Do with a Stolen Van Gogh?". New York Times. Vol. 169, no. 58, 707. pp. C1, C6.
- ^ "Opportunistic Thieves Just Stole a Prized Van Gogh Landscape From a Locked-Down Dutch Museum Under Cover of Night". artnet News. 2020-03-30. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
- ^ Bailey, Martin (2023-09-12). "'Handed over in an Ikea bag': art detective recovers Van Gogh painting stolen from Dutch museum". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 2023-09-12.