Wolfgang Ferdinand Ernst Günther Stechow (5 June 1896 Kiel – 12 October 1974 Princeton, New Jersey) was a German American art historian.

[1] He was the son of Prussian prosecutor Waldemar Stechow and the concert singer Bertha Deutschmann.

During these years he worked from 1927 to 1928 as a member of the German Institute for Art History in Florence .

After the takeover of the Nazi regime, he was forced to retire in 1936 as a citizen of evangelical faith with Jewish ancestors.

He emigrated to the United States, where he through the mediation of Oskar Hagen, an assistant at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.