August Heinrich Niedmann (born May 3, 1826 in Braunschweig, † January 18, 1910 in Ried near Kochel am See) was a German painter. Niedmann received his first instruction from his father Martin David Niedmann (1790 - presumably 1860), who worked as a teacher and painter of miniature portraits at the Stobwasserschen lacquerware factory in Braunschweig. He then became a student of the landscape painter and inspector of the Brunswick gallery Heinrich Brandes at the Collegium Carolinum, who referred him to the Munich Art Academy for further studies.

On January 27, 1851, his entry is recorded in the register of the academy in the field of painting, which at that time was headed by the history painter Wilhelm Kaulbach. In Munich he made fri...