Board
& MembersBoard
& Members
The Board and Members
• Chairman is Drs Kees Kaldenbach. Kaldenbach, See his 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 much more. A bio text by an editor. Fast track entry in ALL Amsterdam museums. Avoid spending time waiting in museum queues. Enter the museums together with me.
• Vice Chairman is Drs. Michel Didier. 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 in HOLLAND include these art specialists : ========
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.
Dr. Stefan Elevelt, http://www.amsterdamtourguide.nl archeologist, tour organiser for fine arts architecture and archaeology in Amsterdam and Rome.
Drs. Jip Meijer, Durendale militair-historische reizen. In English . Military Historic travels. Battlefield tours to Ieper, Verdun, Normandy etc. Email info@durendale.nl
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.
FRANCE:
Three very gifted female tour guides, including Eglantine de Boissieu, at Hidden Paris Walking Tours, email hiddenpariswalkingtours@gmail.com.
Irene Bosvy in Frenchadventures.com, email info@frenchadventures.com, stating in 2015: "All our guides are licensed with university degree art, architecture, history , blue badge guides , English speaking, High school diploma + 5 years studies minimum."
GERMANY / DEUTSCHLAND:
Dr. des. Katharina Schmidle email, Specialist in Art, Museums, Castles, Culture in and around Munich / München, see www.artattendance.com
Dr. Brigitte Timmermann, Vienna Walks OG, Travel-Guiding-Lecturing Services, Touristische Dienstleistungen. Kunst & Kulturvermittlung. Email brigitte@viennawalks.com, http://www.viennawalks.com.
PORTUGAL:
Lisbon, Portugal. Dra. Rita Azevedo, art historian
+351 926 524 029
ritaportazevedo@gmail.com
BELGIUM
Ghent:
Ghent-Authentic with local guides, info@ghent-authentic.com
New members welcome!
USA
New York City:
Insideouttours, many themes, with Academic Guides. info@insideouttours.com
Municipal Arts Society MAS, specializing in architecture, info@mas.org
Wall Street Walks, especially on finance, tours@WallStreetWalks.com
Woolworth Tours, only for the Woolworth Building!, Info@WoolworthTours.com
New members welcome!
Boston, Mass:
Dr Curt di Camillo at www.DiCamilloCompanion.com, email curt@DiCamilloCompanion.com
New members welcome!
AUSTRIA:
New members welcome!
July 2013: Ricardo N and his wife Francis S. live in New York City and are full-time NYC art aficianados, travelling the world and visiting most of the fine art centers in Europe.
In June-July 2013 they toured for three full days with Drs Kees Kaldenbach.
Ricardo: "I would rate you as terrific. It is a great treat being with you - You saved my life in showing me the Mauritshuis collection - I thought it was completely closed!"
Francis N.: "Kees is outstanding... he has a very rare gift among any the great number of professional tour guide we met in our lifetime... in presenting a deep and very specific art history knowledge, and in combining this with passion and and easy going presentation.
My husband and I have spent our lives in the art world of NYC and the West Coast. We have rarely met such a wonderful guide. Kees is an outstanding fountain of visual knowledge and historic insight. He truly is top class within the field of Western art history!"
>Members of the Circle of Academic Tour Guides of the Netherlands, Flanders and German speaking lands (CATON) can meet their clients in The Netherlands, Germany, Austria 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.
Back to the CATON welcome page.
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, Flanders and German speaking lands." In practice, the Circle strives to enhance the professional quality and the communicative skills of tour guides, by organizing meetings and master classes in didactic matters and in communication techniques, marketing skills, and in some cases through giving its support, financial and otherwise, for relevant activities . Members of the Circle are kept informed of these activities through announcements through emails.
The Circle of Academic Tour Guides of the Netherlands, Flanders and German speaking lands (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.
Go to the introduction page.
Concierges, hotel managers, restaurant managers: become a reseller .
Read a biography.
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 for leading Japanese newspapers. In 2004
and 2005 he acted in an advisory role to additional BBC teams. Kaldenbach has
written extensively on Vermeer and 17th century Delft, on Rembrandt, 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)
Reaction, questions? Read client testimonials.
Open seven days a week.
Member of the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel).
Email responses and bookings to art historian Drs. Kees Kaldenbach.
This page forms part of the 2000+ item Vermeer web site at http://kalden.home.xs4all.nl/
Updated 13 July 2015