Gottfried Boehm (pronounced [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈbøːm]; born 1942) is a German art historian and philosopher.
Boehm studied art history, philosophy and German in Cologne, Vienna and Heidelberg.
In 1986 Boehm moved to the University of Basel, where since 2005 he has also been director of the Swiss national research project "Eikones / NCCR Iconic Criticism".
Gottfried Boehm is regarded, along with Hans Belting and Horst Bredekamp, as one of the leading theoreticians of art in the German-speaking world.
His account of Bildwissenschaft draws on aesthetics and the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Jonas, Arthur Danto, Meyer Schapiro, Kurt Bauch and Max Imdahl.