Ludwig Emil Grimm (14 March 1790[1] – 4 April 1863) was a German painter, art professor, etcher and copper engraver.

In 1823 and 1826 he was able to secure commissions for two series of portraits of scholars, professors and doctors, thanks to his brothers' connections to the academic community in Göttingen.

In 1832, he helped Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern found the artists' colony in Willingshausen where he became a Professor of history painting at the Kassel Academy.

[4] In 1842, two years after his first wife's death, he married the daughter of Reform theologian Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst [de].

In 2012, the city of Hanau has awarded the "Ludwig Emil Grimm Prize" to young artists.