Private Educational and Pleasant Rembrandt Walks in Amsterdam

by art historian Drs Kees Kaldenbach

 


Explore Vermeer and Rembrandt with your own private art specialist in the world-famous Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Come visit the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Holland and enjoy its outstanding 17th century Dutch master paintings, its Delftware and exquisite doll's houses with leading Vermeer specialist and art expert Drs Kees Kaldenbach. Arriving at at 8.59 am with his VIP pass, you are first in front of the museum's four Vermeer paintings. Kaldenbach believes in a question and answer approach in the time-honored style of Socrates, allowing the client to discover the painting step-by-step. After, move on to the Rembrandt in the Rijksmuseum's Gallery of Honour; standing directly before superb Rembrandts in the Rijksmuseum. See his brush strokes and imagine yourself standing just in back of the great master. His late style shows wild, expressive brushwork and ability to penetrate the human soul.
In the room with early Rembrandts, discover how the painter reached mastery within just a few years after turning 20. In the afternoon, after lunch - or another day - see the Rembrandt House Museum and explore where Rembrandt's masterpieces were painted. There are tables full of paint pigments and canvases of different kinds. You can see how he splurged on art objects as props.
A day trip is also possible to the Royal Collection Mauritshuis, in The Hague, preferably arriving there at opening time (10 am) to be able to admire the museum's three superb Vermeers and all Rembrandts.

Client feedback:
Ricardo N and his wife Francis S. (New York City) are full-time art aficionados, travelling the world and visiting most of the fine art centers of Europe. They toured for three full days with 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 of 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 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!"

Take a walk: 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.

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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).

Fast track entry in ALL Amsterdam museums. Avoid spending time waiting in museum queues. Enter the museums together with me.

Tour duration: 2 to 3 hours. We may go on foot or by bike.

All paintings of OTHER single artists, photographic reproductions in true size.

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When in amsterdam you have the incredible choice of three Rembrandt experiences:

1) Some of the best and grandest real Rembrandt paintings in the Rijksmuseum.

2) Experiencing Rembrandthuis, the home he lived and worked in, with some great paintings and numerous etchings.

3) See all 330 Rembrandt paintings in the Magna Plaza building behind the Royal Palace/Town Hall

 

Rijksmuseum, 30 september 2015. Photo K. Kaldenbach.

 

Getting there after 9.30 or 10 gives you this maddening crowd.

 

 

 

In front of the Night Watch. Entering in tthe VIP mode at 9 AM with me allows this situation!

 

Rijksmuseum tour. The glorious national collection.

 

 

Clipping from the NYT, copyright NYT. In this particular case I was not asked to be the tour guide!

 

More photos of the art works here

Sneak Preview Rijksmuseum reopens

Vermeer lectures and tours.

See Dali's opinion of Vermeer.

Vermeer and Neuroscience / Opthalmology.

Rembrandt tours incl the Maria Trip portrait.

English article on key portrait of Uytenboogaard.

Dutch/NL text Uytenboogaerd, Dutch .

See all 330 Rembrandt paintings in full size reproductions, in about 2 hours in the Magna Plaza building behind the Royal Palace/Town Hall

Research presented in November 2014 about Mannheimer: he almost bought the best Vermeer: The Art of Painting (now in Vienna)

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From: Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes, A Hidden Inheritance, 2011.

TripAdvisor...Visit my page.

 

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!"

 

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.

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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.

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Optional

 

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.

 

I am prepared to give this set of two powerpoint presentation lectures. A while back, I presented it at Atlanta, Georgia, at the Oglethorpe University.

 

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)

 

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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

 

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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Updated 3 Nov 14 2014. Update 17 january, 2017.