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27-690: Discovered by painter Jozef Israëls , the area around Laren School was distinguished by its unspoiled beauty and diversity of landscape, and was considered ideally situated by many members of the Hague School. After 1898, it was rediscovered by young artists known as the second generation of the Laren School, their work extending far into the 20th century. This colony of artists is significant in Dutch Impressionism , being seen as part of this international movement. The ideas fostered in

54-703: A rabbi . When he was eleven years old, he attended Minerva Academy in Groningen and he began to study painting. He subsequently continued his studies in Amsterdam , studying at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, which later became the State Academy for Fine Arts . He was a pupil of Jan Kruseman and attended the drawing class at the academy. From September 1845 until May 1847 he was in Paris, working in

81-654: A gold medal at the Brussels Salon , 1858), and Village Poor (a prize at Manchester). In 1862, he achieved great success in London with his The Shipwrecked Mariner , purchased by a Mr Young, and The Cradle, two pictures that the Athenaeum magazine described as the most touching pictures of the exhibition. A portrait of Jozef Israëls was painted by the Scottish painter George Paul Chalmers . In 1886, he

108-764: A new place to paint. Around 1870, the painter, Jozef Israëls, discovered the village of Laren. He visited often with his son, Isaac , whom he instructed in outdoor painting. His enthusiasm for Laren, and the surrounding landscape and agricultural activity, was infectious, and other artists from the Pulchri Studio began to join him. Albert Neuhuys and Anton Mauve were the first to follow Israëls in 1877 and in 1882. Later, Hein Kever , Willem Steelink , Hendrik Valkenburg, Wally Moes , Etha Fles , Arina Hugenholtz and Tony Offermans Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch , Willem Roelofs , and Max Liebermann (the first foreign painter at

135-578: A villa called De Wilde Zwanen (The Wild Swans) which, after World War II, was converted into the Singer Museum and concert hall. At De Wilde Zwanen, painters such as Co Breman and Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig differed from the mainstream of Impressionism, painting in the style of Pointillism and Luminism . nl:Johan Coenraad Heyen Brock specialized in the representation of factories. For modernists, like Piet Mondriaan , Jan Sluyters and Leo Gestel , this studio and its location were significant in

162-530: 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 Jr. (1868–1943) and his wife Anna (1878–1962). William Henry Singer Jr., is son to William H. Singer Sr. (1835-1909), a Pittsburgh steel baron and friend of Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie. William H. Singer Jr.

189-547: Is respected for not only his art, but for his philanthropy during WWII. He remains listed in the Department of State, Art in Embassies. William Henry Singer was the son of a steel baron of the same name who sold his company Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Co. to Andrew Carnegie . Against the wishes of his father, young Singer became an artist and after marrying Anna Spencer-Brugh in 1895, he moved to Monhegan, Maine to join

216-539: The Paris Exhibition of 1900 ). David Singing before Saul, one of his later works, seems to hint at a return on the part of the venerable artist to the Rembrandtesque note of his youth. As a watercolour painter and etcher he produced a vast number of works, which, like his oil paintings, are full of deep feeling. They are generally treated in broad masses of light and shade, which give prominence to

243-777: The artist colony there. His father was disappointed that he chose art rather than business and insisted he earn his living as an artist. His seascapes sold well, however, and together with the artist Martin Borgord , the couple traveled to Paris where they studied art at the Académie Julian in 1901. Attracted by the artist colony in Laren, made famous by the Dutch painters Jozef Israëls , Anton Mauve , Jacob Maris , Albert Neuhuys , and their pupils such as Matthijs Maris , Arina Hugenholtz , they decided to settle there. They were not

270-465: The Laren School and an old friend of Israël) came to work in Laren. Thus, the Laren School as an artist colony was born. Some of these painters settled in the region; their Laren-inspired works were shown to the public at the Pulchri Studio and affiliated galleries. Neuhuys concentrated on farm life as a genre subject, but the others turned to the landscape . Art historians describe this as

297-499: The Laren School, the Hague School ( Pulchri Studio ), and Bergen School (art) , and also has examples of Expressionism . Some of the more prominent names in the collection acquired since 1956, are Bart van der Leck , Jan Sluijters , Leo Gestel , Chris Beekman , Jan Toorop , Mommie Schwarz , Mommie's wife Else Berg, Gustave De Smet and Herman Kruyder . The museum has a café and hosts regular visiting art exhibitions. On

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324-480: The Laren School. From art collectors and authors, the term is often used for all painters active in Laren, and as shorthand for the continuation of the Hague School and the Oosterbeek School . Several founders of this artist colony — Jozef Israëls and his son, Isaac, along with Albert Neuhuys and Anton Mauve — were already known as Hague painters. This artists of the Laren School are linked together by

351-634: The Laren Style, which is regarded as part of the Hague School . Around 1885, the first colony ceased to produce new work based on Laren and its environs. Around 1898, Laren was rediscovered by a group of young painters who gave new life to the Laren Style school of painting for the next 40 years, including nl:Otto van Tussenbroek , Evert Pieters , Bernard de Hoog , Hendrik Theodorus de Court Onderwater, nl:Andre Broedelet , Salomon Garf , Franz Deutmann , Lammert van der Tonge, nl:Jaap Dooijewaard and Bernard Pothast. Most of these were genre painters in

378-560: The Netherlands. In 1903, under the initiative of August Johannes le Gras (1864–1915), the Gooische Painters Association, "De Tien" (The Ten), was founded. This group organized exhibitions across the country to create new opportunities for the work of its members. The Ten included nl:Derk Meeles , nl:Toon de Jong , nl:David Schulman and nl:Emanuel van Beever . William Henry Singer , an American painter and art collector, came to Laren in 1901. In 1911, he built

405-401: The agricultural tradition, like Neuhuys. However some were landscape painters, notably nl:Cornelis Vreedenburgh , nl:Gerrit van Blaaderen and nl:Frans Langeveld . The second generation of the Laren School diverged, one group following the traditions of the Hague School while the rest painted in the new style of Impressionism , embracing modernity with an enthusiasm now considered typical of

432-534: The area found their way to the Modernist art movement. The industrialisation of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and other regions of the Netherlands affected landscapes that had remained untouched for centuries. Many of these landscapes disappeared, and with them, the inspiration for earlier landscape and genre painting. After 15 years of fame, from 1855 to 1870, the artists of the Oosterbeek School were looking for

459-473: 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

486-484: The day. After an illness, he went to recuperate his strength at the fishing town of Zandvoort near Haarlem , and there he was struck by the daily tragedy of life. Henceforth, he was possessed by a new vein of artistic expression, sincerely realistic, full of emotion and pity. Among his more important subsequent works are The Zandvoort Fisherman (in the Amsterdam Gallery), The Silent House (which gained

513-677: The direction they took in their art. In 1921, the Association of Visual Artists, Laren, Blaricum , was founded by Co Breman. In 1935, the Gooische Painters Association fractured, and the members formed several distinct groups. August Johannes le Gras specialised in African landscapes and animals, Jan Pieter Veth in portraits , nl:Douwe Komter in still life . Today, the Singer Museum exhibits works of

540-401: The first foreigners to visit the artist colony in Laren; Max Liebermann , who often spent summers painting in the Netherlands, visited in the company of Isaac Israëls , Josef's son. The Singers knew them and others such as the pointillists Co Breman & Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig . They remained special friends with Martin Borgord, with whom they traveled to Norway . Other close friends were

567-735: The history painter François-Édouard Picot 's studio and taking classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under James Pradier , Horace Vernet , and Paul Delaroche . He returned to Amsterdam in September 1845, where he resumed his studies at the Academy until May 1847. Israëls remained in Amsterdam until 1870, when he moved to The Hague and became a leading member of the Hague School of landscape painters. Israëls has often been compared to Jean-François Millet . As artists, even more than as painters in

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594-543: The painters Walter Griffin , Henri Le Sidaner and Jacob & Willem Dooijewaard . 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

621-548: The principal subject without any neglect of detail. Israëls probably influenced many other painters; one them was the Scottish painter Robert McGregor (1847–1922). He married Aleida née Schaap and together the couple had two children: a daughter, Mathilde Anna Israëls, and a son, Isaac Lazarus Israëls , born in 1865, who also became a fine art painter. On August 12, 1911 Jozef Israëls died in Scheveningen , The Hague . Attribution: Singer Laren Singer Laren

648-577: The relationship between their ideas of art, style and techniques. In Laren, the countryside was the main theme of the landscape painters. Therefore, the term 'Laren' applies primarily as a place of landscape painting. The lightening of color, by adding gold yellow, red and blue, is essential to the Laren School. Another striking feature of Laren School paintings is the romantic view of social life in this tough region of Gooiland. Jozef Isra%C3%ABls Jozef Israëls ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoːzəf ˈɪsraːɛls] ; 27 January 1824 – 12 August 1911)

675-417: The strict sense of the word, they both saw in the life of the poor and humble a motive for expressing with peculiar intensity their wide human sympathy; but Millet was the poet of placid rural life, while in almost all Israëls' pictures there is some piercing note of woe. Edmond Duranty said that they were painted with gloom and suffering. He began with historical and dramatic subjects in the romantic style of

702-516: Was a Dutch painter . He was a leading member of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School and was, during his lifetime, "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century." He was born in Groningen to Jewish parents. His father, Hartog Abraham Israëls, was a money changer and intended for Jozef to be a businessman. His mother was Mathilda Salomon née Polack, and she hoped that Jozef would become

729-807: Was made an Officer in the Order of Leopold . His later works include The Widower (in the Mesdag collection), When we grow Old , Peasant Family at the Table and Alone in the World (Van Gogh Museum / Amsterdam Gallery), An Interior (Dordrecht Gallery), A Frugal Meal (Glasgow Museum), Toilers of the Sea, Speechless Dialogue, Between the Fields and the Seashore, The Bric-a-brac Seller (which gained medals of honor at

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