Santiago Rusinol - Artist Info

About Santiago Rusinol

  • Biography

    Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (February 25, 1861 - June 13, 1931) was a Catalan Spanish Post-Impressionist* and Symbolist* painter, poet, and playwright. He was born in Barcelona in 1861, and died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens.

    He influenced Pablo Picasso as a modern artist, and also left a lot of modernist* buildings in Sitges, a town in Catalonia very influenced by that artist. He attended the Gervex Academy in Paris where he discovered his love for modernism. He was most known for his plays, and for landscape and garden paintings.

    After leaving school he worked in his family's textile businesses, but he quickly broke with this family tradition and left to embark upon a career as an artis...

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