Elias Gottlob Haussmann

Elias Gottlob Haussmann (also Haußmann or Hausmann) (1695 – 11 April 1774) was a German painter in the late Baroque era. Haussmann served as court painter at Dresden, and from 1720, as the official portraitist at Leipzig. He is mostly known for his portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach which was painted in 1746.

Life Haussmann was born in Gera. He was at first a pupil of his father, Elias Haußmann (1663–1733), who was the Landgrave of Hesse's court painter. Haussmann was in the royal Hessian service, as he was mentioned in a September 1717 letter of recommendation from Landgrave Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt as "Our court painter's son".

The Landgrave allowed him a study trip through Germany, where he met portraitist Francesco Carlo Rusca at Lugano. Haussmann also met the Dresden court painter Ádám Mányoki, who wrote favorably of him.

Haussmann's oil paintings and the larger number of etchings show a cross section of the leading layer of the bourgeoisie of Leipzig from the fields of politics, administration, judiciary, the church, business (especially trade and crafts), science and art. Examples include:

Mayor Gottfried Wilhelm Küster Councillor and builder Kaspar Richter Councillor and city judge Pastor Gottlieb Gauditz Archdeacon Christian Weiß Councillor and merchant Merchant Johann Heinrich Linke Jurist Christian Gottfried Moerlin University professor August Friedrich Müller Kapellmeister and Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach Senior municipal musician Gottfried Reiche Writer Luise Gottsched