Aurèle BARRAUD (1903-1969) ✿

Aurèle René Barraud (1903-1969) was a Swiss painter and engraver representing New Objectivity, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

He studied engraving at the La Chaux-de-Fonds School of Art, worked for two years in Reims and spent nine years in Paris with his brother Aimé before returning to La Chaux-de-Fonds. He then moved to Geneva.

Brother of the painters Charles, François and Aimé Barraud, he exhibited two paintings at the Salon des Indépendants in 1929. He lived in the North of France then in Paris before settling in Geneva. He exhibited regularly in museums in Switzerland such as the Palais de l'Athénée in 1954.