Rait Prääts
Rait Prääts (b. 1952) studied at the Estonian State Institute of Fine Arts from 1970 to 1975. He has participated in exhibitions since 1975 and has been a member of the Estonian Artists’ Union since 1984.
From 1993 to 2003 he worked as a lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts and from 1995 to 2008 he organised the festival KUNSTISUVI. Since 2003 he has been a freelance artist.
He began his creative path by creating large stained glass windows for public spaces, including St. Nicholas Church and the National Library. In glass, he developed his own authorial technique, which allowed him to paint in a so-called three-dimensional way. Moving towards sculpture, he uses cement mixtures for modeling, to which he adds painted glass details, achieving a kind of synthesis between painting and sculpture.
