Elias Gottlob Haussmann

Elias Gottlob Haussmann
Born1695
Died11 April 1774(1774-04-11) (aged 78–79)
Germany
Known forPortrait painting
MovementBaroque
J. S. Bach holding his Riddle Canon, BWV 1076 (1746)
Gottfried Reiche, oil painting by Haussmann, 1726–27
Luise Gottsched, oil painting by Haussmann c. 1750

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.