Hermann Lindenschmit was a German painter.

Lindenschmit came from a family of artists in Mainz: his great-grandfather was the Mainz draughtsman, engraver and coin engraver Johann Lindenschmit (1771-1845), his grandfather the painter Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder and his father Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Younger, married to Maria, née Jost, Hermann's mother.

A resident of Munich since 1863, Lindenschmit initially attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium after elementary school and transferred to the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in 1872/73, also a humanistic school, which he left in 1874. He remained friends with his classmate Fritz Freund for the rest of his life. His entry into the antiquities class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich is documented on October 15, 1875.

He was then a student of Alexander Strähuber in 1877/78, Ludwig Löfftz in 1878/81 and his father's composing class until 1883. He subsequently spent time studying in Italy and repeatedly in Tyrol, South Tyrol and the Bavarian mountains.

Hermann Lindenschmit mainly created figurative scenes and depictions of individual characters from rural life, taking inspiration from the circle of artists around Franz von Defregger. He was a member of the Münchner Künstler-Genossenschaft (MKG) and the Künstlergruppe 48. In 1883, he took part in Munich's annual exhibition at the Glaspalast for the first time with his painting The Return of the Prodigal Son. Until 1930, he regularly took part in the Glaspalast exhibitions with oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, but also showed his works elsewhere.

His compositions became known above all for their realization in the technique of wood engraving, which appeared in popular magazines.

In 1913, he was awarded the Golden Medal at the International Art Exhibition in Munich, where he exhibited the paintings Gotische Stube and Der Antiquar. His charcoal drawing The Narrative, exhibited at the "Great German Art Exhibition" in Munich's Haus der Kunst in 1937, was acquired by Joseph Goebbels.