Christian Georg Schütz the Elder was a German painter and engraver .

Christian Georg Schütz the Elder Ä. was born on September 24, 1718 in Flörsheim am Main - the fourth of five children of the arable and wine farmer Johannes Schütz and his wife Dorothea née Breckheimer. At the age of 13 he began a four-year apprenticeship with the Frankfurt fresco and facade painter Hugo Schlegel.

Initially a facade and decoration painter, Schütz soon specialized in landscape painting and vedute in oil . He went on study trips to the Rhine and Switzerland and around 1750 stayed at the royal courts in Braunschweig , Kassel and Mainz . From 1759 to 1762 he worked for the French city commander of Frankfurt, Count Thoranc.

He died in Frankfurt in 1791. After his death, his son Johann Georg continued the workshop.