Hermann Stockmann was a German painter, draughtsman and illustrator. He lived in Dachau for 40 years.

At the age of 14, he went to his uncle in Munich to attend secondary school. After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter he studied at the Munich Art Academy under Gabriel Hackl, Johann Caspar Herterich and Wilhelm von Dietz, among others. It was the latter who recognized and encouraged his pupil's ability to draw landscapes, architecture and figures from memory, i.e. without a model. In the capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria, he was a valued member of the Allotria artists' society. He created many designs for the famous Munich pageants.

In 1898, the artist, who was by then highly regarded as an illustrator, moved to Dachau. Hermann Stockmann, who was appointed professor at the Munich Art Academy by Prince Regent Luitpold in 1910, worked there until his death, where he founded a museum association and opened a picture gallery in 1908.

The artist drew many motifs for calendar pictures and postcards. He painted company signs and product labels, designed house facades, decorated inn rooms, designed posters for large public festivals in Bavaria, produced several designs for glass pictures in churches (e.g. the parish church of St. Benedikt in Ebertshausen), which were executed by Syrius Eberle, and much more.

He also illustrated a considerable number of children's books. He also wrote his own poems and illustrated his own texts, such as Kleinstadtzauber, which was published by Braun und Schneider in Munich in 1925.

For over 30 years, Hermann Stockmann worked for the popular and richly illustrated weekly magazine Fliegende Blätter, for which he created an immense number of illustrations. He also produced several drawings for the magazine Jugend from 1896 onwards. At the beginning of the 1930s, he illustrated a number of articles in the semi-monthly magazine “Jugendlust” published by the Bavarian Teachers' Association.

Hermann Stockmann was also a co-founder of the Dachau artists' group. As such, he played a decisive role in the first exhibition of the artists' group on June 11, 1919 in Dachau Castle. After the dissolution of the Dachau Artists' Group, he became involved in the Dachau Artists' Association, which was founded in 1927 and of which Hermann Stockmann was the first chairman until 1929 and then an honorary member.

In 1927, on his 60th birthday, he was made an honorary citizen of Dachau.