Wilhelm Gause

• Name — Wilhelm Gause • Birth Name — Wilhelm Gause • Born — 27 March 1853 • Birthplace — Krefeld, Kingdom of Prussia • Died — 13 June 1916 • Place of death — Krems an der Donau, Austria-Hungary • Field — Painting, drawing

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. • Illustration — Court Ball at the Hofburg, 1900 portraying the Emperor Franz Josef I, Historical Museum of the City of Vienna • Illustration — Ball at the Vienna City Hall 1904 portraying the Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger, Historical Museum of the City of Vienna • Illustration — Kaiser Franz Joseph beim Jagd-Picknick (1908) • Illustration — Kaiser Franz Joseph auf der Jagd (1908) • Illustration — In einem Lesesaal (In a reading hall) (1906) • Illustration — Eine Künstlerkneipe in Wien • Illustration — Bild aus Seite 501 in "Die Gartenlaube". Image from page 501 of journal Die Gartenlaube, 1891. • Illustration — Beleuchtung und Illumination des Amphitheaters von Pola