Johann Georg Schütz was a German painter and etcher.
Schütz was the younger son of the Frankfurt painter Christian Georg Schütz the Elder and his first wife Anna Maria, née Hochecker. He received his first lessons in his father's workshop and studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf from 1776 to 1779. After his first attempts as a landscape painter, he specialized in history paintings and portraits.

From 1779 to 1784 he lived in his home town again, after which he settled in Rome until 1790. He lived in the apartment of Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein at Corso no. 18 (now the Casa di Goethe museum), where a kind of residential community of German-speaking artists lived, including Friedrich Bury, Heinrich Meyer and Johann Heinrich Lips. In 1786, he also met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on his Italian journey, who also lived there for over a year. Goethe mentions Schütz in his book Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert. Schütz illustrated Goethe's treatise Das römische Carneval with 20 colored copperplate engravings. In his book Italienische Reise, Goethe writes about him: "Georg Schütz, a Frankfurt native, skillful, without eminent talent, more devoted to a certain decent comfort than to sustained artistic activity, which is why the Romans also called him il Barone, accompanied me on my travels and was often useful to me." Schütz also accompanied Duchess Amalie, whom he sketched with her entourage on excursions to Tivoli in 1787.

After returning from Rome, he settled back in Frankfurt, where he was known as the "Römer-Schütz" to distinguish him from other painters in his family, including the only slightly younger Christian Georg Schütz "the cousin". At the end of 1791, he took over the workshop of his deceased father Christian Georg Schütz the Elder. On October 21, 1798, he married Maria Thekla Würdwein from Walldürn. The son of this marriage, Christian Georg Schütz the Younger, also became a painter.

Schütz died of consumption in May 1813. A number of his drawings and paintings can be found in the Historical Museum in Frankfurt.