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Till-Holger Borchert (born 4 January 1967,[1] in Hamburg) is a German art historian and writer specialising in 14th and 15th-century art. He has been the chief curator of the Groeningemuseum and Arentshuis museums in Bruges, Belgium, between 2003 and 2014.[2] In December 2014, he was appointed as director of the Municipal Museums in Bruges.[3] In this role he initiated a radical reorganisation of the institution and laid the foundation for the renewal of infrastructure like the ticketing facility of the Gruuthusemuseum, a new storage and the exhibition park BRUSK designed by architect Paul Robbrecht. In November 2021 he was appointed as new director of the Suermondt Ludwig Museum in Aachen, a position he resumed in april 2022.[4]

He has been teaching in Europe and the US [5] and curated a number of major exhibitions, including "Memling's Portraits", which showed in Bruges, at the Frick Collection in New York and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid,[6] and "Memling: Rinascimento fiammingo" in Rome in 2014/15.[7] He was also one of the leading curators of the Bruges Triennial for contemporary art and architecture[8] and has been co-curator of the exhibition "Van Eyck An Optical Revolution" in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent in 2020. [9]

Publications

• Van Eyck to Dürer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish Painting on European Art, 1430–1530. Thames & Hudson, 2011
• Splendour of the Burgundian Court: Charles the Bold (1433–1477) (ed). Cornell University Press, 2009
• Jan Van Eyck. Taschen, 2008 (2nd edition 2020)
• Memling's Portraits (ed). Thames & Hudson, 2005
• The Age of Van Eyck: The Mediterranean World and Early Netherlandish Painting 1430–1530. Thames & Hudson, 2002
• The Book of Miracles, with Joshua P. Waterman, Taschen, 2013.
• Masterpieces in Detail: Early Netherlandish Painting from Van Eyck to Bosch, Prestel, 2014
• Bosch in Detail, Ludion, 2016
• Dürer in Detail, Ludion, 2020
• Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution, Hannibal, 2020 (co-editor with Maximiliaan P.J. Martens and Jan Dumolyn)

References

External links

• Brief video interview with Borchert
• video interview with Borchert
• Interview with Borchert
• Guided Tour of the Van Eyck exhibition in Ghent by Borchert

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Till-Holger Borchert (* 4. Januar 1967[1] in Hamburg) ist ein deutscher Kunsthistoriker.

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