Hans Temple was a Moravian - Austrian genre and portrait painter.

Hans Temple studied at the Vienna Academy, his teachers were Hans Canon and Heinrich von Angeli, later he went to Paris, where he was trained by Mihály Munkácsy for two years. The main field of the painter were portraits of contemporary well-known artists in the vicinity of her studio. For example, he painted the sculptor Viktor Tilgner while working on the Mozart monument (Vienna Castle Garden) and his teacher Munkácsy in his studio while working on his painting "Christ before Pilatus" .

Temple also received official commissions from the Viennese court, such as the painting "Congratulations from the Austro-Hungarian Army to Emperor Franz Joseph I on Archduke Friedrich's 85th birthday". The painting “Service in the War Hospital in the Vienna Künstlerhaus” was probably preceded by an official commission from the imperial family. In 1896 he received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin. In 1898, Temple painted a figurative depiction of the wedding celebrations at the wedding of Duke Ernst II on behalf of Duchess Alexandrine of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha .with Duchess Alexandrine in the palace chapel in Karlsruhe on May 3, 1842, which contains 34 portrait figures. The main work of Hans Temple took place in Vienna, where he died on December 3, 1931.

His grave is in the Protestant section of the Vienna Central Cemetery. In 1959, Hans-Temple-Gasse in Vienna- Liesing (23rd district) was named after him.