John Gutmann (1905 – June 12, 1998) was a German-born American photographer and painter. Gutmann was born in 1905 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) to an upper-middle-class Jewish family. He earned a degree in art from Staatliche Akademie für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Breslau [de] and moved to Berlin in 1927, earning a post-graduate degree at Preussisches Shulkollegium for Hohere Erziehung.