Gabriele Mucchi (1899-2002) was an Italian painter, graphic artist and architect. He is considered the co-founder of the "New Realism" (Nuovo Realismo) movement.

After graduating from high school Mucchi studied to be a civil engineer and architect at the University of Bologna from 1916 to 1923. After graduation, he worked in a construction company in Rome, an from 1927 on in an architectural firm in Milan. A stay in Berlin in the years 1928 to 1930 was followed by a lengthy stay in Paris from 1931 to 1934. In subsequent years, his name became known through an impressive wall paintings of the Italian borders. His studio became a meeting place for the anti-fascist group Corrente.

After the Second World War, in which he had first fought as a soldier and later as a partisan, he co-founded the magazine Realismo.

After the war Mucchi lived in East Germany for many years. From 1956 to 1961 he worked as a professor at the Art Academy Berlin-Weissensee, from 1961 to 1963 at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the University of Greifswald. After that he lived in Milan and Berlin. Gabriele Mucchi married the sculptor Jenny Mucchi-Wiegmann in 1933 and both are buried together at the Central Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde.