Wilhelm von Rümann (11 November 1850–6 February 1906) was a prominent German sculptor, based in Munich.
Rümann was born in Hanover. He studied from 1872 to 1874 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Akademie der Bildenden Künste München), and from 1880 with Michael Wagmüller.[1] From 1887 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1891 he was raised to the nobility.
As well as numerous funerary monuments in the Old South Burial Ground in Munich (Alter Südfriedhof, München) he created sculptures which are still to be seen in the city: monuments for Georg Simon Ohm (1895, in the courtyard of the Technische Universität München), Max von Pettenkofer (1909) and Carl von Effner (1886) at the Maximiliansplatz (now the Lenbachplatz), the Puttenbrunnen (Putti Fountain) at the Peace Monument in the Prinzregentenstraße (originally intended for Schloss Herrenchiemsee) and the marble lions in front of the Feldherrnhalle (1906).
Among his pupils were Bernhard Bleeker, Jakob Hofmann, Moissey Kogan, Martin Scheible and Alois Mayer.
He died in Ajaccio, Corsica, and is buried at the North Burial Ground (Nordfriedhof), Munich.
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