Roland Wilfred Tiemann, painter, draftsman, and commercial artist, was born to Albert and Lydia Tiemann in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 10, 1897. He attended East Division High School and, in 1921, he was a student at Wisconsin State Normal School. Tiemann studied for a time at the Art Students League in New York.

In 1930, he was married and living in Manhattan but by 1935 he had moved his family to Greenburgh, New York. He relocated to Hudson, New York about 1942. Tiemann earned his livelihood as an advertising artist. There is a newspaper account of his solo exhibition of watercolors, oils, and drawings at the Westchester Conservatory of Music in White Plains, New York in October 1942. He is represented in the collection of Adirondack Experience—Museum of Blue Mountain Lake, New York.

About 1974, Tiemann moved to Florida where he died in Pasco on February 28, 1992.