Till-Holger Borchert (born 4 January 1967, in

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) is a German art historian and writer specialising in 14th and 15th-century art. He has been the chief curator of the

Groeningemuseum The Groeningemuseum is a municipal museum in Bruges, Belgium, built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey. It houses a collection of Flemish and Belgian painting covering six centuries, from Jan van Eyck to Marcel Broodthaers. The museum' ...

and Arentshuis museums in

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, between 2003 and 2014. In December 2014, he was appointed as director of the Municipal Museums in Bruges. 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

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, 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

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, a position he resumed in April 2022. He has been teaching in Europe and the US and curated a number of major exhibitions, including " Memling's Portraits", which showed in Bruges, at the

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in New York and the

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in Madrid, and " Memling: Rinascimento fiammingo" in Rome in 2014/15. He was also one of the leading curators of the Bruges Triennial for contemporary art and architecture and has been co-curator of the exhibition "

Van Eyck Van Eyck or Van Eijk () is a Dutch toponymic surname. ''Eijck'', ''Eyck'', ''Eyk'' and ''Eijk'' are all archaic spellings of modern Dutch ("oak") and the surname literally translates as "from/of oak". However, in most cases, the family name refers ...

An Optical Revolution" in the

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in 2020.

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 Taschen is a luxury art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. As of January 2017, Taschen is co-managed by Benedikt and his eldest daughter, Marlene Taschen. History The company began as Taschen Comics, pu ...

, 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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