• Was a Czech painter and Jesuit brother.
• Raab was born in 1715 in Nechanice near Nový Bydžov, the 12th child of his family.
• His father František decided to send him to Jičín to study art under painter Jan Jiří Major, a disciple of painter Petr Brandl.
• He studied with him for seven years.
• In 1744, at the age of 29, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus.
• After two years as a brother novice in Brno, he was sent to Jesuit houses in Klatovy, Uherské Hradiště, University of Olomouc, Jihlava, Kutná Hora, and to Prague.
• His painting was involved in the decoration of a series of new churches, large-scale cycles of the lives of saints in corridors of Jesuit colleges, and to a lesser extent, frescos.
• The longest period of his Jesuit life was spent at the Clementinum in Prague, from 1758 to 1769 and again in 1771.
• In addition to paintings, Raab also produced drawings for works of sculpture, oversaw their implementation, and, if necessary, sculpted them himself.
• His Jesuit colleagues included the painter Josef Kramolín.
• In 1773, the Jesuit Order was abolished and Raab had to adapt to a new life.
• He was eventually accepted by the Cistercian monks of Velehrad.
• Raab spent the rest of his life in Velehrad, earning a livelihood from his artistic work.
• He died in 1787.
