Till-Holger Borchert Explained

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)

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

Notes and References

1. H. Verougstraete, Jacqueline Couvert, Roger Schoute, Anne Dubois (eds.): La peinture ancienne et ses procédés: copies, répliques, pastiches. Leuven: Peeters 2006, p. 26.
2. Web site: A fake Memling or a genuine Van der Veken?. CODART. April 17, 2024. nl.
3. Web site: Till-Holger Borchert and Hubert De Witte new directors of Musea Brugge . 18 December 2014. CODART. nl.
4. News: Till-Holger Borchert au musée Suermondt-Ludwig d'Aix-la-Chapelle. 12 May 2022. Le Quotidien de l'art. fr.
5. Web site: Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chairs of Excellence in Art History. The University of Memphis.
6. Web site: Annual Hohenberg Lecture Focuses on Jan van Eyck. https://web.archive.org/web/20140907010332/http://www.memphis.edu/releases/mar08/hohenberg.htm . 2008. 2014-09-07 . memphis.edu. April 9, 2012.
7. Web site: Memling, il maestro fiammingo odiato da Michelangelo. December 23, 2014. La Stampa. April 17, 2024.
8. News: In Bruges: sea plastic, Chinese crabs and a Spanish pool take centre stage at triennial . 4 May 2018. The Art Newspaper.
9. Web site: Van Eyck: An optical Revolution . Kestrel, Burgher, Spout, Julian Bell . 6 April 2020. www.lrb.co.uk .