Private Educational and Pleasant Rembrandt Walks in
AmsterdamPrivate Educational and Pleasant Rembrandt Walks in
Amsterdam
See the city of Amsterdam as sketched by Rembrandt.Starting off at or near your hotel I will take you on a wonderful private walking tour of Amsterdam, focusing on Rembrandt the painter. This guided itinerary tour (in Dutch, English or German) is given in plain, accessible language.
Alternatively we can rent a small open or covered boat and make it a private boat tour - with or without drinks and catering (the boat and catering will be extra cost).
Practical matters
Tour duration: 2 to 3 hours. We may go on foot or by bike.
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Drs. Kees Kaldenbach is your private "scholar-lecturer on culture tours".*
*Martha Gellhorn, Travels with Myself and another, page 182.
It is a rare and unique privilege that the Rijksmuseum has linked from the main Rijksmuseum site to my site. Start at www.rijksmuseum.nl and select Collection, after which you choose Digital Collaboration and the Digital Vermeer House.
Endorsements
It is a rare and unique privilege that the Rijksmuseum has linked from the main Rijksmuseum site to my site. Start at www.rijksmuseum.nl and select Collection, after which you choose Digital Collaboration and the Digital Vermeer House.
I perform Rembrandt walks for the Netherlands Bureau of Tourism, London Office and New York City office. The clients they serve are often top ranking journalists.
The magazine www.luxurytraveler.com has devoted a main feature to my tours and walks.
Read client referrals and estimonials.
Read a biography.
An additional options (perhaps on another day) are possible to
a) the Rembrandt Paintings Guided Lecture and Museum Tour
b) the Rembrandt House, Amsterdam
c) the Royal Collection The Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, which houses several other renowned Rembrandt paintings, including his 'Anatomical Lesson of Dr Tulp'. Vermeer paintings may also be discussed. Clients are requested to sign a legal waiver in case of transport by private car. You will either be driven in the car of Mr. Kaldenbach, seating up to 3 to 4 passengers) or in a minibus (seating 4 up to 8 passengers). The minibus will probably be driven by a colleague, Mr Hans Noltes of www.hollandexploringtours.nl / Hollandtherideway. Mr Noltes is both a academic geography teacher and a qualified taxi driver. During the ride he will be able to tell you fascinating details about landscape, history and human habitation. Alternatively we take the train.
Expressive qualities in the art of painting: an eye painted by Rembrandt (to the left) . . . . . . . . and an eye by the head man of the St Luke Guild, Pickenoy (to the right)
Saskia and Rembrandt, their good years. Etching. Rembrandt belongs to the class of best etchers in teh world. On show in the Rembrandthuis.
The Hundred Guilders Print, as an etching unfinished (according to Prof. Ernst van de Wetering) but nevertheless driven to extremely high cost in on auctions in Rembrandt's time.
About Art Historian Drs. Kees Kaldenbach.
Drs. K. Kaldenbach has been featured in television and radio documentaries, including BBC2 TV, NTV Japan and Radio Netherlands World. In July 2004 he was interviewed about Amsterdam 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 Amsterdam, on Vincent van Gogh and on other art history topics.
Drs. Kees Kaldenbach will be your private "scholar-lecturer on culture tours".
It is a rare and unique privilege that the Rijksmuseum has linked from the main Rijksmuseum site to my site. Start at www.rijksmuseum.nl and select Collection, after which you choose Digital Collaboration and the Digital Vermeer House.
Further information is available on his 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)
How to get there:
- by car: ring road exit S 106 towards the centre, then 1st to the right (paid parking)
- by trams 1 and 17; exit at Surinameplein
- by tram 2; exit Hoofddorpplein.
From the museum square it takes a 10-minute tram ride.
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Drs. Kees Kaldenbach, art historian, kalden@xs4all.nl Haarlemmermeerstraat 83hs, 1058 JS Amsterdam (near Surinameplein, ring road exit s106, streetcar tram 1 and 17).
Telephone 020 669 8119; cell phone 06 - 2868 9775.
Open seven days a week.
Member of the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel).
E mail esponses 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 15, 2004. Updated ~November 28, 2011.
In Dutch: stadswandeling, stadstour, stads rondleiding met gids, rondleidingen Amsterdam, rondleiding Amsterdam, gids Amsterdam, tour Amsterdam, stadswandelingen Amsterdam, stadswandeling Amsterdam, museumbezoek Amsterdam.
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