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See all 7 famous Vermeer paintings in Holland in a new light!
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Imagine being the privileged guest of honour at the home of art historian Kees Kaldenbach. While sipping a fragrant cup of coffee or tea, you listen to his personalized (private or small-group) lecture and discussion on the astounding visual wonders that the Delft painter Johannes Vermeer has bestowed upon us.
Afterwards, a short ride by private car or tram takes us to the nearby Rijksmuseum (additional entry fee). In the museum I will quietly point out and explain the visual wonders of Vermeer's technique; contents, brushstrokes, details, composition, colour. Please note the Rijksmuseum only shows highlights up to 2010.
You may also arrange this VIP treatment for business contacts or friends. Lectures (in Dutch, English or German + translations into Japanese) are given in plain, accessible language. Thus you will be the beneficiary of tailor-made travel.
Photo by Dick Martin.
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.
Total time of this Vermeer tour: about 2 1/2 hours
Lecture at my home:1 hour.
Transport to museum: 1/2 hour
Museum: about 1 hour, including waiting on line.
Price for Amsterdam: E 45,- per person, including tax, excluding Museum entry.
This lecture is available on times which we mutually agree, 7 days a week. Pre-bookings are required.
Minimum: 3 persons. Smaller groups are negotiable.
Maximum: Groups will be limited to 8-10 persons. Price per person is lower in a larger group.
Optional programmes.
An additional option (perhaps on another day) is a visit to the Royal Collection The Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, which houses several other renowned Vermeer paintings, including his 'Girl with the Pearl Earring' and 'View of Delft'.
In case of transport in Mr Kaldenbach's private car, clients are requested to sign a legal waiver. You will either ride in the car of Mr. Kaldenbach, seating up to 3 to 4 passengers) or ride in a minibus (seating 4 up to 8 passengers). The minibus will probably be driven by Mr Hans Noltes of www.hollandexploringtours.nl / Hollandtherideway. Mr Noltes is both a geography teacher and a qualified taxi driver. During the ride he will be able to tell you fascinating details about landscape and human habitation.
If Drs. Kaldenbach is unavailable for any reason, a high quality substitute will take his place!
About Art Historian Drs. Kees Kaldenbach.
Drs. Kees Kaldenbach has been featured in television and radio documentaries, including BBC2 TV, NTV Japan, Danish TV DKR and the Radio Netherlands World service. In July 2004 he was interviewed about Delft 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 Delft.
Further information is available on his web site: www.johannesvermeer.info
See the TV programme on Dutch national TV on Kees Kaldenbach as masseur and art historian. NPS Nederland 2, Saturday, November 25 2006. Go to the Dutch programme Vals Plat. Then move the horizontal bar at the bottom to the desired date. The first 2 minutes starts with a clown in a car. Then my 9 minute bit of fame. Audio track in Dutch.
Drs. Kees Kaldenbach is your private "scholar-lecturer on culture tours".*
*Martha Gellhorn, Travels with Myself and another, page 182.
Map of Haarlemmermeerstraat, Amsterdam. Please note this tricky situation: there is another street in town that sounds almost the same: Haarlemmerstraat. You need to go to my street, Haarlemmermeerstraat. Take tram 2 to Hoofddorpplein square or tram 1 to Suriname plein square.
Drs. Kees Kaldenbach
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.
Email kalden@xs4all.nl
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What if you have
already seen the Rijksmuseum Vermeer paintings? The next day - or yet
another day which fits your travel schedule - we could have another
lecture in my salon or back garden on the series of paintings in the
Royal Collection in The Hague, among which is the famous
Girl with the Pearl
Earring. After this home lecture we
will take either a train ride or a ride in my small car to the Royal
Collection of Paintings, Mauritshuis, The Hague. At the Mauritshuis
again I will give
no
lecture but I will provide some subdued pointers on ways of seeing
and understanding. Lecture time between
1 and 2 hours. Travel time 1 hour in good road traffic. Mauritshuis
time about 1 hour.
Before restoration.
After
restoration. Spot the differences.
In an added third leg of the Vermeer tour I may also take you to Delft where I could show you the fabric of seventeenth century life and art - see Delft Artists and Patrons in the yellow menu. Travel time 1 hour in good road traffic. Delft walking tour about 1 to 2 hours. 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 Mr Hans Noltes of www.hollandexploringtours.nl / Hollandtherideway. Mr Noltes is both a geography teacher and a qualified taxi driver. During the ride he will be able to tell you fascinating details about landscape and human habitation.
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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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Drs. Kees Kaldenbach, art historian and Vermeer specialist, 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 VVV Amsterdam Tourist info and the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce.
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This page forms part of the 2000+ item Vermeer web site at www.xs4all.nl/~kalden
Launched April 15, 2004. Updated December 12, 2006.
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