Background

Santiago Rusinol was born on February 25, 1861 in Barcelona, Spain. He was the son of a rich businessman from Barcelona.

Education

Santiago was trained as a painter at the Watercolour Center of Barcelona (Centro de Acuarelistas de Barcelona) under the direction of Tomas Moragas. Rusinol also attended the Gervex Academy in Paris, where he discovered his love for Modernism.

Career

Since 1889 to 1899, Santiago lived in Paris, where he exhibited his works at the Salons. His paintings of that period are basically landscapes, urban themes, portraits and also Art Nouveau symbolic compositions. During those years, he developed an addiction to morphine, that would cause him serious health problems. In 1899, the painter returned to Spain, where he became the leader of the Modernist movement and established the museum Cau Ferrat.

In the twentieth century, Rusinol entered a new creative phase, marked by his dedication to theater and his specialization in painting gardens all over Spain.

In addition to his activities as a painter, he also was a writer of some repute. Rusinol started to write at the age of twenty. His first writings were nature descriptions and letters, especially those to his future wife Lluisa Denis. These texts were very important for him to test his grasp of language.

Rusinol was also tempted by the theatre. He wrote various plays with enormous success, like "Els Jocs Florals de Canprosa", "El Pati Blau" and also a large series of dramas, comedies and vaudevilles, culminating in 1917 with the theater version of "L’Auca del Senyor Esteve".

Achievements

• Santiago Rusinol was mostly known as one of the leaders of the Catalan Modernism movement. He was also the founder of the museum Cau Ferrat, which is located in Sitges, Spain.

Works

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  • Avenue of Plane Trees

  • Portrait of Eric Satie at the harmonium

  • Portrait of Eric Satie

  • Jardín de las Elegías, Son Moragues

  • Sóller on the north coast of Mallorca

  • Waiting For Customers

  • Moulin de la Galette

  • Jardines de Aranjuez 1

  • The kitchens, Moulin de la Galette

  • Blue Courtyard, Arenys de Munt

  • The Cemetery, Montmartre

  • Jardines de Aranjuez 2

  • The painter Miguel Utrillo in the gardens of the Moulin de la Galette

  • Before the Morphine

  • Café des Incoherents, Montmartre

  • A Romance

  • White Farmhouse (Bunyola, Majorca)

  • Jardín abandonado

  • View of Granada

  • The Landing Stage

  • Summer Shower

  • Gardens of the Generalife

  • Terraced Garden in Mallorca

  • La verja

  • Figure Study

  • Entrada al Vinyet

  • Jardines de Aranjuez

  • La Butte

  • Ticket seller at the Moulin de la Galette dance hall

  • Portrait of Ramon Casas

  • Rue des Saules in Montmartre

  • Jardines del pirata (Mallorca)

  • Huerto del Vinyet

  • Cipreses dorados

  • Senyor Quer in the Garden

  • Landmark

  • El Valle de Los Naranjos

  • Bridge over a River

  • The Shooting Gallery, Moulin de la Galette

  • Gardens of Aranjuez

  • Girona

Connections

Santiago was married to Lluisa Denis.

Wife:

Lluisa Denis

References

• 68 Color Paintings of Santiago Rusinol i Prats - Spanish Post-Impressionist Painter
  2014
• Catalan Modernism: Santiago Rusinol (Painting Photo Essay series) (Volume 27)
  2017