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
edit- 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
edit- ^ H. Verougstraete, Jacqueline Couvert, Roger Schoute, Anne Dubois (eds.): La peinture ancienne et ses procédés: copies, répliques, pastiches. Leuven: Peeters 2006 ISBN 9789042917767, p. 26.
- ^ "A fake Memling or a genuine Van der Veken?". CODART (in Dutch). Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "Till-Holger Borchert and Hubert De Witte new directors of Musea Brugge". CODART (in Dutch). 18 December 2014.
- ^ "Till-Holger Borchert au musée Suermondt-Ludwig d'Aix-la-Chapelle". Le Quotidien de l'art (in French). 12 May 2022.
- ^ "Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chairs of Excellence in Art History". The University of Memphis.
- ^ "Annual Hohenberg Lecture Focuses on Jan van Eyck". memphis.edu. 2008. Archived from the original on 2014-09-07. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
- ^ "Memling, il maestro fiammingo odiato da Michelangelo". La Stampa. December 23, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
- ^ "In Bruges: sea plastic, Chinese crabs and a Spanish pool take centre stage at triennial". The Art Newspaper. 4 May 2018.
- ^ Kestrel, Burgher, Spout, Julian Bell (6 April 2020). "Van Eyck: An optical Revolution". www.lrb.co.uk.
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