Hans Tisdall (1910–1997) was a German-born artist, born as Hans Aufseeser. He studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich in 1928 and was apprenticed to the sculptor Moisey Keegan. He lived and studied in Paris and in the artists' colony at Ascona in Switzerland before coming to London in 1930. He began painting full-time setting up a studio at 6 Fitzroy Street, London, next door to Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Having changed his surname to Tisdall, his mother's maiden name, he married Tamesa Fabrics founder Isabel Tisdall in 1941. He became well-known as a textile designer producing work for Edinburgh Weavers and later Tamesa Fabrics. Exhibited with the London Group, Leger Galleries, Festival of Britain, Society of Mural Painters.