Wilhelm Gause (27 March 1853 – 13 June 1916) was a German-Austrian painter.

[2] Perhaps Gause's most famous work is Court Ball at the Hofburg.

Created in 1900, it hangs today within the walls of the Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria.

[3] It depicts aristocrats crowding around Franz Joseph I of Austria at the Hofburg Imperial Palace.

[4] On 28 January 2011, Another painting of his, Party on the Ice, 1909 was sold at Sotheby's in New York for $13,750.