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Contents [hide] 1 Jennifer Kilian 1.1 Early Years 1.2 Later Years 1.3 References

Jennifer Kilian
Jennifer Mary Kilian (born 19 September 1953) is an American-Dutch translator [1]. She started translating in 1988, when she co-founded Kist & Kilian[2] with her associate Katy Kist. She studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, NY, earning her Ph.D. in 1993 for her catalogue raisonne of the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age artist Karel du Jardin[3]. Her book on the artist was published in 2005[4], and her catalogue of the Du Jardin exhibition in the Rijksmuseum came out in 2007/2008[5]. As a translator, she has worked for many Dutch museums and institutions, for instance the Mauritshuis, the Van Gogh Museum, and the Rijksmuseum, translating books, catalogues, wall texts, brochures, etc., on history and art history[6]. She was born in New York City, spent her childhood in Europe, moved back to the USA in her teens, and settled permanently in the Netherlands in 1985. She is currently living in Amsterdam. She has dark blond hair and is 1.68 m. tall. Her father, Richard T. Kilian was a successful journalist for the London Daily Express[7], and then as a freelancer in Geneva; he has travelled extensively, covering news ranging from society news[8] to wars in the Middle East[9]. Deborah T. Reynolds, her mother, worked as a model[10], manager of a health food store, and an artist's representative. [edit] Early Years As a child, Jennifer lived in London, Rome, Brussels and Paris. Back in the USA at the age of ten, she lived in a house with her grandparents, aunt and uncle in Westport, CT. She returned to Europe with her parents at the age of sixteen, living in Celigny, and then Geneva for several years. Returning to the United States, she worked at the Flower Farm greenhouse, and eventually became an assistant manager of Waldenbooks in Greenwich, CT. Jennifer then attended college, ending up in New York at Barnard College/Columbia University, and going to the Institute of Fine Arts for her graduate work.

[edit] Later Years Her dissertation research took her to Holland in 1985. In the following years she travelled extensively, and met her future husband, Peter Bogaards, an information architect and designer[11], currently working at Informaat[12]. They were married in 1989. Their first child, Sebastiaan Valentine Peter Bogaards was born in 1994; their second child, Alexandra Justine Cornelia Bogaards in 1996. In these years Jennifer worked as an art-historian, and as a free-lance translator. When Alexandra was 2 years old, Jennifer and Peter filed for divorce. Since then, the family has lived in Amsterdam, sharing their home with a series of cats, currently two Abyssinian sisters. and for the past three years an old English Springer Spaniel.

[edit] References 1.^ http://www.telefoonboek.nl/bedrijven/t2905229/amsterdam/kist-&-kilian/ 2.^ http://www.kistandkilian.com/ 3.^ http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/pdfs/dissertations/completed_dissertations.pdf 4.^ http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/oculi.8/main 5.^ http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/tentoonstellingen/rijksmuseum/dujardin 6.^ http://www.kunstprofessionals.nl/node/148/backlinks 7.^ http://www.ebay.com/itm/1956-Press-Photo-Richard-Kilian-Egypt-London-Daily-/260845521803 8.^ http://www.bobsliberace.com/decades/1950s/qt.html 9.^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19560914&id=_PUpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nGYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5182,1307586 10.^ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=life+magazine+covers+1949&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1467&bih=914&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=p2ymT_K_CIjT8gP7iYnRBA#um=1&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=life+magazine+covers+1949+deborah+reynolds&oq=life+magazine+covers+1949+deborah+reynolds&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=img.3...17294.20666.0.20809.17.1.0.16.0.0.108.108.0j1.1.0...0.0.66PQcYGouzI&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=d8bd18d8a9921b2&biw=1467&bih=914 11.^ http://www.bogieland.com/ 12.^ http://informaat.com/blog/why-ias-are-needed-in-the-kitchen.php