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Katy Kist and Jennifer Kilian are native speakers and academically qualified art historians specialised in Dutch seventeenth-century art, history and culture. They have been editing and translating art historical and general texts from Dutch into English for leading Dutch museums and institutions for more than 20 years. Their expert knowledge of the material they are translating or editing, great experience with a variety of texts, and working method guarantee accurate, professional and well-written translations that reflect the author’s voice.

 

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Selected List of Translations

  • Martine Gosselink, New York - New Amsterdam: The Dutch Origins of Manhattan, Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers / Nationaal Archief, 2009
  • Bénédicte Savoy, ‘The Looting of Art: The Museum as a Place of Legitimization,’ in Napoleon’s Legacy: The Rise of National Museums in Europe 1794-1830,Berliner Schriftenreize zur Museumforschung, vol. 27, Berlin, 2009, pp. 29-40
  • Adrian von Buttlar, ‘The Museum and the City: Schinkel’s and Klenze’s Contribution to the Autonomy of Civic Culture,’ in Napoleon’s Legacy: The Rise of National Museums in Europe 1794-1830, Berliner Schriftenreize zur Museumforschung, vol. 27, Berlin, 2009, pp. 173-90
  • Petria Noble, Sabrina Meloni, Carol Pottasch and Peter van der Ploeg, Preserving our Heritage: Conservation, Restoration and Technical Research in the Mauritshuis, (ed. by Epco Runia), The Hague, 2009 (with Jantien Black and Iris Maher)
  • Helen Schretlen, Loving Landscape. The American Impressionist William H. Singer Jr. 1868-1943, (exhib. Laren, Singer Museum), 2008
  • Exhib. cat., Haarlem: The Cradle of the Golden Age, (Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum), wall panels/brochure/banners/labels, 2008
  • Michiel Plomp, ‘Review of “J. S. Turner, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York”,’ Master Drawings, 2008
  • Exhib. cat., Painting Family: The De Brays. Master Painters of 17th-Century Holland(Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum /London, Dulwich Picture Gallery), Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2008. With John Rudge.
  • Helen Schretlen, Loving Art: The William and Anna Singer Collection, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2008 (with a contribution by Jean Woods: exhib. in Laren, Singer Museum/Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland)
  • Koenraad Jonckheere, The Auction of King William’s Paintings, 1713, (Oculi: Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries), John Benjamins Publishers, Amsterdam, 2008
  • Rudi Ekkart et al., Dutch Portraits in the Szépművészeti Múzeum in Budapest, forthcoming
  • Koenraad Jonckheere, Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545-c.1589). Portrait of a Calvinist Painter, (Pictura Nova XIV), Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, Belgium, 2007
  • Mauritshuis, Children in the Mauritshuis, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2007
  • Mauritshuis, Flowers in the Mauritshuis, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2007
  • Paul Huys Janssen, ‘Hieronymous Bosch. Facts and Records Concerning his Life and Work,’ editing, 2007
  • Exhib. cat., Nicolaes Berchem. In the Light of Italy, (Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum/Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich/Schwerin, Staatchliches Museum), Ludion, Ghent, 2006
  • Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Painting in Haarlem 1500-1850: The Collection of the Frans Hals Museum, Ludion, Ghent, 2006
  • Mauritshuis, Vermeer in the Mauritshuis, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2005
  • L. Helmus, ‘The Dutchness of Utrecht Caravaggism’, in exhib. cat. Caravaggio (Milan, Vienna), 2005
  • Peter Fuhring, Ornament Prints. Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Collection Catalogue of Ornament Prints, Sound & Vision Publishers, Rotterdam, 2004
  • Exhib. cat., Feast of Colour: Paintings from the Noro Foundation, (Atlanta, High Museum of Art, P.H.C. Fine Arts, n.v.), 2004
  • H. Roodenburgh, The Eloquence of the Body. Perspectives onGgesture in the Dutch Republic, (editing), Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2004
  • L. Helmus, ‘Journeymen and Servants. Sixteenth-Century Employment Contracts with Painters from the Netherlands’, 2004
  • P. Biesboer, ‘Pieter Claesz. in Haarlem’, (in exhib. cat. Pieter Claesz: Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem), 2004
  • E. de Jongh, ‘Music in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings’, lecture given in Greenwich, CT, The Bruce Museum, 2004
  • M. Senenko, ‘Dutch Paintings in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow,’ Stichting Cultuur Inventarisatie, Amsterdam, 2004
  • Exhib. cat., Vis Vitalis: Fish still lifes by Dutch and Flemish masters 1550-1700, (Utrecht, Centraal Museum), 2004
  • A.M. As-Vijvers, ‘More than Marginal Meaning?: Interpreting Ghent-Bruges Border Decoration’, Oud Holland, 2003
  • E. de Jongh, ‘Signs from Heaven,’ lecture at symposium commemorating L. J. Slatkes, 2003
  • Exhib. cat., Seventeenth-century Dutch Paintings from the Frans Hals Museum, (Japan, entries Pieter Biesboer), 2002
  • Brochure for exhib., Royal Silver: Highlights from the Collection of the House of Orange-Nassau, The Picture Gallery of Prince Willem V, The Hague, 2002
  • Exhib. cat., American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts 1770-1920, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (wall text panels and labels), 2002
  • Exhib. cat., Slip. British and Dutch Contemporary Artists Working with Ceramics, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 2002
  • Lou de Jong, The Collapse of a Colonial Society: The Dutch in Indonesia During the Second World War, NIOD, Leiden, 2002
  • Exhib. cat., The Esser Collection, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2002 (`Swiss Collectors of Dutch Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century,’ by R. Ekkart), 2002
  • Michiel C. Plomp, `The Collector’s Mark of Anthonie Rutgers,’ 2002
  • Exhib. cat., The Secret of Gouda: The Cartoons for the Stained Glass Windows of Gouda, Museum Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda, 2002 (introduction by Frauke Laarmann)
  • Exhib. cat., The Landscape from Bosch to Rubens, Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch (essays by E. Buijsen, H. Devisscher, and B. Brosens), ‘s-Hertogenbosch 2001
  • Exhib. cat., Aelbert Cuyp, National Gallery of Art, Washington/National Gallery, London/Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, published by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001 (entries by Wouter Kloek, and essay by J. de Groot)
  • Rembrandt Research Project, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vols. 4, 5, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, (with the assistance of John Rudge)
  • Susan Barnes, Horst Vey, Nora de Poorter, Anthony Van Dyck: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, London, (Nora de Poorter’s texts)
  • Eric-Jan Sluijter, Seductress of Sight: Studies in Dutch Art of the Golden Age, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2000
  • Centraal Museum Utrecht, exhib. cat. Pieter Saenredam: The Utrecht Work, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2000 (with the assistance of John Rudge)
  • Hans Verbeek, exhib. cat. Travels through Town and Country: Dutch and Flemish Landscape Drawings 1550-1830, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, published by BCD Holdings, 2000
  • J. J. van Asperen de Boer, Liesbeth Helmus eds., The Paintings of Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597-1665): Conservation and Technique, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2000
  • Jonieke van Es (ed.), Co Westerik: Paintings, De Prom, Baarn, 2000 (catalogue, and essay by Jonieke van Es)
  • SCO-Kohnstamm Instituut, Dr S. Karsten, The SCO Kohnstamm Institute’s Long-Range Programme 2000-2004, University of Amsterdam, 2000
  • SCO-Kohnstamm Instituut, Dr S. Karsten, Quality Assessment Report, University of Amsterdam, 2000 (editing)
  • Molly Faries and Liesbeth M. Helmus, The Madonnas of Jan van Scorel (1492-1562): Serial Production of a Cherished Motif, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1999
  • Marty Bax, exhib. cat., Innocence and Decadence: Flowers in Northern European Art 1880-1914, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England, 1999
  • Eddy de Jongh, `Realism and Seeming Realism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting,’ in Wayne Franits, ed., Looking at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art: Realism Reconsidered, Cambridge University Press, 1997
  • Peter van der Ploeg, Carola Vermeeren, `From the “Sea Princes” Monies: The Stadholder’s Art Collection’ (with Andrew McCormick) in exhib. cat., Princely Patrons: The Collection of Frederick Henry of Orange and Amalia of Solms, The Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1997-1999, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 1997
  • Carola Vermeeren, ‘For the Preservation of her Legacy: The Vicissitudes of Frederick Henry and Amalia van Solm’s Collection of Paintings,’ in exhib. cat., Princely Patrons: The Collection of Frederick Henry of Orange and Amalia of Solms, The Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1997-1999, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 1997
  • Cyriel Stroo, Pascale Syfer-d’Or, Catalogue, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, The Flemish Primitives: Volume I, The Master of Flemalle, Rogier van der Weyden, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, Belgium, 1997
  • Ben Broos, Quentin Buvelot, Frederik J. Duparc, Peter van der Ploeg, Carola Vermeeren, exhib. cat., The Amateur’s Cabinet: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Masterpieces from Dutch Private Collections, V+K Publishing/Inmerc, Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1995
  • Paul Huys Janssen, Jan van Bijlert (1597/98-1671): Painter in Utrecht, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1995
  • John Myerscough, Cultural Policy in the Netherlands: Report of a European Group of Experts, European Programme for the Evaluation of National Cultural Policies, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences, Directorate-General for Cultural Affairs, 1994 (edited)
  • Edwin Buijsen, J. W. Niemeijer, exhib. cat., Cornelis Troost and the Theater of his Time: Plays of the Eighteenth Century, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1993
  • Paul Huys Janssen, `Rembrandt’s Academy’ and catalogue entries in exhib. cat., Paul Huys Janssen and Prof. Werner Sumowski, The Hoogsteder Exhibition of Rembrandt’s Academy, Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder, The Hague, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 1992
  • Beatrijs Brenninkmeijer-De Rooij, Ben Broos, Fred G. Meijer, Peter van der Ploeg, exhib. cat., Bouquets from the Golden Age: The Mauritshuis in Bloom, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1992
  • Eric Jan Sluijter `Didactic and Disguised Meanings? Several Seventeenth-Century Texts on Painting and the Iconological Approach to Northern Dutch Painting of this Period,’ in David Freedberg and Jan de Vries eds., Issues & Debates: Art in History - History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 1991
  • Lyckle de Vries, `The Changing Face of Realism’, in David Freedberg and Jan de Vries eds., Issues & Debates: Art in History - History in Art: Studies in seventeenth-century Dutch Culture, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 1991
  • Marty Bax, Bauhaus Lecture Notes 1930-1933, Architectura & Natura Press, Amsterdam, 1991 (with Michael O’Loughlin and Bob Ordish)
  • Els M. Jacobs, In Pursuit of Pepper and Tea: The Story of the Dutch East India Company, Walberg Pers, Netherlands Maritime Museum, 1991
  • Louwrien Wijers ed., Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy, SDU Publishers, The Hague, 1990
  • Chudi Upkabi, Doing Business in Africa, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 1990
  • C. Schweigman and U. T. Bosma eds., Research and Development Cooperation: The Role of the Netherlands, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 1990
  • Laurens J. Bol, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne: Painter and Draughtsman, Davaco, Doornspijk, 1989
  • Dorine Proske-van Heerdt, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Priaulx Library, Guernsey, Guernsey 1989
  • C. G. Brouwer, Cowha and Cash: The Dutch East India Company in Yemen 1614-1655, D’Fluyte Rarob, Amsterdam 1988