| Code | DS/UK/1530 |
| Dates | 05/06/1896-12/10/1974 |
| Person Name | Stechow; Wolfgang (05/06/1896-12/10/1974); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Stechow |
| Forenames | Wolfgang |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Art Historian. Assistant at University Göttingen (1923); Associate Professor (1931); also musician and conductor of Akademische Orchester-Vereinigung Göttingen; Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison; Professor at Oberlin, Ohio (1940-1963); Visiting Professor, University Michigan (1963/64); associate professorships such as in Ohio, Massachusetts, Natioanl Gallery (Washington D.C.) and University of Princeton. |
| History | Studied History of Arts, Archaeology, History of Music in Freiburg, Berlin, Göttingen (1913/14 and 1918-1921); doctoral dissertation (1926); emigrated 1936 to USA. |
| Source | Gerson, Horst. "Wolfgang Stechow." , in Strauss, Walter S., ed. Tribute to Wolfgang Stechow [special issue] Print Review 5 (Spring 1976): 74-77, reprint [translation of?] Kunstchronik 28 (June 1975): 216-20; Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 63 cited, 81 mentioned; Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, p. 78, mentioned, p. 81; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 397-400; Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 2, pp. 652-659; [obituaries:] Arnold, Paul B. "A Tribute to Wolfgang Stechow." Art Journal 34, no. 3 (Spring, 1975): 240; Walsh, John, jr. "Wolfgang Stechow (1896-1974)." Burlington Magazine 118 (December 1976): 855-856. |
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