Gabriel Schachinger was a German painter.

The son of a gilder, he studied at the Munich Art Academy and received his artistic training from Hermann Anschütz, Alexander von Wagner and Karl von Piloty. From 1876 to 1878 he stayed in Italy on a Bavarian state scholarship .

Schachinger then settled in Munich. His most important works include a ceiling painting for the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden and a curtain for the Hoftheater in Munich. Otherwise he mainly created portraits, floral still lifes and genre paintings. He portrayed the Bavarian kings Max II and Ludwig II for the conference hall of the Bavarian Reichsratskammer. His most famous painting, completed in 1887, shows King Ludwig in the robe of the Grand Master of the Order of Saint George and hangs in the museum at Herrenchiemsee Palace .

Gabriel Schachinger married Amalia Fruhmann (1857–1925) in 1881. The marriage produced five children: Wilhelmine Fruhmann (1878–1912), Henriette Müller (1879–1956), Gabriele Dorn (1881–1961); his daughter Irene Volkhardt (1888-1966) was an opera and concert singer, his son Walter Schachinger (1883-1962) a painter and conductor. The grave of Amalia and Gabriel Schachinger is in the Old South Cemetery in Munich.