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
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
^H. Verougstraete, Jacqueline Couvert, Roger Schoute, Anne Dubois (eds.): La peinture ancienne et ses procédés: copies, répliques, pastiches. Leuven: Peeters 2006
ISBN9789042917767, p. 26.