Wilhelm Gause


Wilhelm Gause was a German-Austrian painter. He studied at the Düsseldorf Academy, and in 1888 exhibited his work in Vienna.

Works

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. It depicts aristocrats crowding around Franz Joseph I of Austria at the Hofburg Imperial Palace.
On 28 January 2011, Another painting of his, Party on the Ice, 1909 was sold at Sotheby's in New York for $13,750.