Board & Members

Circle of Academic Tour Guides of the Netherlands and Flanders (CATON)

This is the web site of the Circle of Academic Tour Guides with a background in History, Art History, Archaeology and/or Architecture.

We are a circle of great, accessible, articulate and inspiring scholars, lecturers, men and women with a background as art historians, general historians, social historians and some related experts from other disciplines*

-> Welcome to this home page of the Circle of Academic Tour Guides of the Netherlands and Flanders (CATON). Yes! We have no "mumbling professors" here! ;-)

The Board

• Chairman is Drs Kees Kaldenbach's 2000 page web site , email kalden@xs4all.nl. Drs Kees Kaldenbach organizes 48 varieties of tours and is specialized in Vermeer, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh and more. A bio text by an unknown editor

• Vice Chairman is Drs. Michel Didier, his email mdidier@tijdruimte.nl. Drs. Michel Didier, web site is Tijdruimte.nl He is specialized in Art History and Architecture Courses, Lectures - and in International travel with groups.

Members include:

Dr. Llewellyn Bogaers, www.levendverledenutrecht.nl. Promotion of cultural history focusing on late mediaeval Utrecht and church history. Lectures. Guided tours. Books.

Jan Maarten Dalmeijer. Modern architecture and general history in Utrecht. Architectuurgids / Architectonisch vormgever / docent Architectonische vormgeving. Page in Dutch only.

Drs. Jip Meijer, Durendale militair-historische reizen. Military Historic travels. Battlefield tours to Ieper, Verdun, Normandy etc.

Drs. G.M.F. (Freya) van der Valk, www.histofun.nl with historical walks and and fun trips and other activities in The Hague.

Drs. Chris de Nieuwe. Architecture walks, architectural and city planning history in Amsterdam.

Members of the Circle of Academic Tour Guides of the Netherlands and Flanders (CATON) can meet clients in The Netherlands and in Flanders for a personalized guided tour of art museums and historic centers. During these tours we express our fascination and our enthusiasm for history.

 

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The circle was founded unofficially on April 13, 1998, and has opened its public web site in 2008, ten years later. Our primary aim is to "Promote and stimulate the highest quality in academic level tour guide activity in The Netherlands and Flanders." In practice, the Circle strives to enhance the professional quality and the communicative skills of tour guides, by giving courses and master classes in didactic and communication techniques, marketing skills, and by organizing meetings, conferences, lectures, and other activities on a regular basis, and in some cases through giving its support, financial and otherwise, to relevant activities organized by others. Members of the Circle are kept informed of these activities through announcements through emails and on a separate section of this home page.

The Circle of Academic Tour Guides of the Netherlands and Flanders (CATON) considers a great tour guide a person who is a deeply knowledgeable expert in the field of history, art history, archaeology, architecture, or another field of related expertise, and who is able to express this knowledge in an articulate, multi-faceted, enticing, exhilaring and fun way. In the day-to-day work our tour guides express both a lust for life and an enthusiasm for all of these artistic fields of human endeavour.

 

Enjoy yourself and learn about history while strolling and discussing the country's history, art and culture. In doing so, we may touch many bases - spanning not only fine art and architecture but also the city's history and current social issues.

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About Drs. Kees Kaldenbach:

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Drs. Kees Kaldenbach has been featured in television and radio documentaries, including BBC2 TV, NTV Japan, Danish TV and Radio Netherlands World Service. In July 2004 he was interviewed about alkmaar artists by Tetsuya Tsuruhara for the leading Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun. In 2004 and 2005 he acted in an advisory role to additional BBC teams. Kaldenbach has written extensively on Vermeer and 17th century alkmaar, on Vincent van Gogh and on other art history topics.

Drs. Kees Kaldenbach is your private "scholar-lecturer on culture tours".

Further information is available on his encyclopedic web site: www.johannesvermeer.info

Contact information:

Drs. Kees Kaldenbach , kalden@xs4all.nl

Haarlemmermeerstraat 83 hs

1058 JS Amsterdam

The Netherlands

telephone 020 - 669 8119 (from abroad NL +20 - 669 8119)

cell phone 06 - 2868 9775 (from abroad NL +6 - 2868 9775)

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Email responses and bookings to art historian Drs. Kees Kaldenbach.

This page forms part of the 2000+ item Vermeer web site at www.xs4all.nl/~kalden

Launched April 13, 2008. Updated June 14, 2011.