Alexander Hollaender, an alumnus of the university (BA 1929, MA 1930, PhD 1931), and his wife, Henrietta, collected paintings, sculpture, and works on paper for more than half a century. With characteristic independence of mind and an international outlook, they focused on the art produced in America, Europe, and South and Central America from the 1950s to the 1970s.

The Hollaender Collection includes representative works by artists from the CoBrA group as well as examples of Art Brut and Art Informel executed by some of their most influential members, such as Jean Dubuffet, Carl Henning-Pedersen, Alberto Burri, Hans Hartung, and Antonio Saura. The best known of the CoBrA works is Clown of 1954 by Karel Appel. The collection also includes work by Mogens Balle, Pierre Alechinsky, Corneille, Eugène Brands, Ger Lataster, Anton Rooskens, and Theo Wolvecamp.

The entire Hollaender collection, containing work by Alexander Calder, Adolph Gottlieb, Barbara Hepworth, Hans Hofmann, Louise Nevelson, and David Smith and numbering over 150 works in various media, was given to the Chazen between 1979 and 1992.

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