Wolfgang Lotz (April 19, 1912, in Heilbronn – October 24, 1981, in Rome) was a German art historian specialized in Italian Renaissance architecture.
Lotz first studied Law in Freiburg im Breisgau and then art history at the Universities of Munich and Hamburg, where he was a student of Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich.
He first worked at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, and after his return from military service he was assigned to the International Commission for Monuments in Munich.
[1] In 1974, he published, with Heydenreich, his most popular book, the 38th volume of the Pelican History of Art, entitled The Architecture in Italy: 1400-1600.
Three years later, Lotz published a selection of essays entitled, Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture.