Radu Drăgoescu (* 17 June 1914 in Paris; † 7 December 1999 in Bucharest) was a Romanian painter and chess composer.

Drăgoescu graduated from the Janson de Sailly and attended the "Julian" Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris from 1932 to 1936. In 1939, he obtained a licence for letters and philosophy at the University of Bucharest.

From June 1941 to December 1945, Drăgoescu was a cartographer for the Romanian army during the Second World War. During this time, he married Elena Popescu in 1942, who gave birth to their daughter Șerbana Drăgoescu a year later, who also embarked on an artistic career and has donated a painting of her father, signed by him, to the Romanian Chess Federation every year since 2000 for the prize named after him to promote chess composition.

In 1950, the family moved permanently to Bucharest, where he became a member of the Uniunii Artistilor Plastici the following year, after several of his paintings were shown at major exhibitions.

After his retirement in 1974, Drăgoescu turned to chess composition, in which he was awarded the title of Master of Artistic Chess by the Romanian Chess Federation in 1990.

Source: de.wikipedia.org

On the Website "Chess Composers" is written: 
"Radu Drăgoescu was a painter and composed chess problems in all genres, with a predilection for selfmates and helpmates. He wrote many articles for "Buletin Problemistic" and for "Planeta Sah".
Valeriu Petrovici and Marian Stere published a book about Radu Drăgoescu's works ("Radu Drăgoescu", 2004) and his family had created a website in his memory."