Paul Raud was an Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

n painter. The twin brother of painter Kristjan Raud

Kristjan Raud

Kristjan Raud was an Estonian painter and draughtsman.His parents were Jaan Raud and his wife Henriette Loviisa Raud...

, he studied in Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

 beginning in 1886, becoming influenced by the work of Eduard von Gebhardt

Eduard von Gebhardt

Franz Karl Eduard von Gebhardt was a Baltic German historical painter. He was born in Järva-Jaani, Estonia, the son of a Protestant clergyman, and studied first at the Academy of St. Petersburg . In 1860 he became the pupil of Wilhelm Sohn at Düsseldorf, where he permanently settled, and became...

. After his return to Estonia, he painted mainly portrait commissions for some time, before traveling with his brother and Amandus Adamson

Amandus Adamson

Amandus Heinrich Adamson was an Estonian sculptor and painter.-Life:...

 to the islands of Muhu

Muhu

Muhu , is an island in the Baltic Sea. With an area of 198 km² it is the third largest island belonging to Estonia, after Saaremaa and Hiiumaa....

 and Pakri

Pakri Islands

Pakri Islands are two Estonian islands in the Finnish Gulf: Suur-Pakri and Väike-Pakri . Administratively they belong to the town of Paldiski...

 in 1896. His works of this period are reminiscent of those of Max Liebermann

Max Liebermann

Max Liebermann was a German-Jewish painter and printmaker best known for his etching and lithography.-Biography:...

. In 1899 he returned to work in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, taking on some of the stylistic trappings of Impressionism

Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...

; 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

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, 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.

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