Hermann Feierabend (1928–1995 in Rorschach) was a German-Swiss painter and graphic artist.

Raised in Rorschach and encouraged by his father, who was a metalworker, the family moved to Friedrichshafen on the German side of Lake Constance in 1940, where Hermann began an apprenticeship as a painter of lettering and decoration. Due to military service (to which he was called up at the age of 16) and subsequent imprisonment, he was only able to continue his apprenticeship in 1948.

From 1951 to 1956, he studied stage design, painting and graphic design under Mertz at the Academy for Cognition and Design in Stuttgart, where he subsequently taught portrait and nude drawing until 1960.

After a year as a freelance graphic artist, he worked as a commercial artist at ZF Friedrichshafen AG from 1961 to 1990 and exhibited oil paintings, watercolours and graphics several times in the Lake Constance area in the 1960s. In 1990, he left the mechanical engineering company to work as a freelance painter and stage designer. However, he died just five years later at the age of 67.

From the 1980s onwards, he exhibited every one to two years at various locations in southern Germany. Three years after his death, a large memorial exhibition was organised in 1998 in the Graf-Zeppelin-Haus in Friedrichshafen, followed by others in Kressborn, Wasserburg and the castles of Maurach and Salem from 2000 to 2002.

The painter was married to Hanne Feierabend.

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