Gustav Adolf Schultze (18 December 1825, in Naumburg, Province of Saxony – 1897 in Almrich) was a German portrait painter.

Gustav Adolf Schultze was born in 1825, the son of a theologian who later gave up the profession of clergyman and worked as a master needle maker in the Saale / Unstrut district.

[2] On Schadow's recommendation, Gustav Adolf Schultze met the art historian Franz Theodor Kugler, who became a fatherly friend.

On 12 February 1854, Gustav Adolf Schultze married Emma Louise Emilie Lienemann (1833–1895), a native of Germany.

During the last years of his life, Gustav Adolf Schultze suffered from an eye disease that eventually led to complete blindness.