Paul Raud

{{Short description|Estonian painter}} {{Expand Estonian|topic=bio|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Paul Raud | image = File:Paul Raud photograph.jpg | image_size = 200px | alt = | caption = Paul Raud, c. 1910 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date |1865|10|22}} | birth_place = Kirikuküla, present-day Estonia | death_date = {{death date and age |1930|11|22|1865|10|22}} | death_place = Tallinn, Estonia | spouse = | field = | training = Kunstakademie Düsseldorf | movement = Realism, Impressionism | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = | elected = | website = | bgcolour = | relatives = Kristjan Raud (twin brother) }} '''Paul Raud''' ({{OldStyleDate|22 October|1865|10 October}} in Kirikuküla, Viru-Jaagupi Parish – 22 November 1930 in Tallinn) was an Estonian painter.

==Life and works== He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1888 to 1896.<ref name=EK>{{cite web |url= https://kunilaart.ee/en/artist/paul-raud-2/?width=1513&height=0 |title= Paul Raud (1865-1930) |author= |date= |website= ENN Kunila Art Collection |publisher= |access-date= September 22, 2025 |quote=}}</ref> He became influenced by the work of Eduard von Gebhardt. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

After his return to Estonia, he painted mainly portrait commissions for some time, before traveling with his brother and Amandus Adamson to the islands of Muhu and Pakri in 1896. His works of this period are reminiscent of those of Max Liebermann.

In 1899 he returned to work in Germany, taking on some of the stylistic trappings of Impressionism; this, coupled with time spent working with Ilya Repin, influenced his later style. Later in his career, most especially during and after World War I, he began to teach, from 1915 working as a drawing instructor at the Tallinn Institute of Commerce and from 1923 at the State School of Industrial Art in Tallinn.

Paul Raud is represented with works in the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn.

==Family== His twin brother was the painter Kristjan Raud.<ref name=NM>{{cite web |url= https://www.nommemuuseum.ee/artikkel/kristjan-raud-nomme-linna-aukodanik/ |title= Kristjan Raud - Honorary Citizen of the City of Nõmme |author= |date= |website= Nõmme Museum |publisher= |access-date= September 22, 2025 |quote=}}</ref>

==External links== {{Commons category}} *[http://www.kumu.ee/images/dokumendid/naitused/2006/rauad_ajaleht_web.pdf "From one Century to the Next: Exhibition of works by Kristjan and Paul Raud in Kumu Art Museum June 22–October 8, 2006]{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, information folder from the Art Museum of Estonia *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160325034417/http://digikogu.ekm.ee/search?searchtype=complex&author_ids=422 Works by Paul Raud] at the Art Museum of Estonia

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