Josef Herman OBE RA (3 January 1911 – 19 February 2000), was a highly regarded Polish-British painter who influenced contemporary art, particularly in the United Kingdom.

He was part of a generation of Central and Eastern European Jewish refugee artists who emigrated to escape Nazi persecution.

He saw himself as part of a tradition of European figurative artists who painted working people. A tradition that included Courbet, Millet and Van Gogh, Kathe Kollwitz and the Flemish Expressionist Constant Permeke.

For eleven years, he lived in Ystradgynlais, a mining community in South Wales.