Boehm, Gottfried, Prof. Dr. phil. born 1942 in Braunau, Bohemia. Study of Philosophy, Art History, German and Literature at the Universities of Cologne, Vienna and Heidelberg. 1968 Doctorate in Philosophy (with Professor Hans-Georg Gadamer) at the University of Heidelberg. 1970-73 Fellowship from the German Research Organization (DFG). 1974 Habilitation in Art History (Heidelberg), “Elemente der Venezianischen Bildnismalerei (1470-1530)”, published as “Bildnis und Individuum” in 1985. 1975-1979 Lecturer and Professor at the Institute of Art History at Ruhr University in Bochum, 1979-1986 Professor of Art History at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. 1981 Co-founder of the Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen IWM) (Institute of Advanced Studies) in Vienna; permanent (non-resident) fellow ever since. Since 1986 Chair of Art History at the University of Basel. Since 1996 Member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie de l’Art; 2001/2002 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute of Advanced Study). Honored with the Austrian “Ehrenzeichen für Kunst und Wissenschaften, I. Klasse”. 2004 Guest Professor at the Ecole Normale des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Since 2005 Director of the NCCR „Iconic Criticism. Understanding the Power and Meaning of Images”. Since July 2006 corresponding member of the Heidelberger Academy of Sciences; since 2010 member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; since 2011 corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 2011 Holder of the Johannes Gutenberg-Foundation Professorship. 2012 Emeritus. Fellow Getty Institute, Los Angeles (2016); Judd-Hume-Prize, Edinburgh (2017).