Santiago Rusinol

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (Catalan: [səntiˈaɣu ruziˈɲɔɫ]; 25 February 1861 – 13 June 1931) was a Spanish painter, poet, and playwright. He was one of the leaders of the Catalan modernisme movement.

He influenced Pablo Picasso as a modern artist, and also left a number of modernist buildings in Sitges, a town in Catalonia.

Life
1951 Spanish 50 peseta banknote, showing Rusiñol

Rusiñol was born in Barcelona in 1861, to a family of industrialists in textiles with origins in Manlleu. Despite the fact that he was the heir to the family's lucrative operations, by the time he was a teenager Rusiñol already showed a strong interest in painting and travel.

His training as painter started at Centro de Acuarelistas de Barcelona under the direction of Tomás Moragas. Like so many artists of the day, he travelled to Paris in 1889, living in Montmartre with Ramon Casas and Ignacio Zuloaga.
Style

Much of his work in Paris belonged to the Symbolism painting style. While there, he also attended the Gervex Academy, where he discovered his love for modernism . After returning to Spain, he settled in Sitges, founding a studio/museum named Cau Ferrat. When back in Barcelona, he was a frequent client of the café Els Quatre Gats, noted for its association with modernisme and the young Pablo Picasso. He went to Mallorca with the painter Joaquin Mir Trinxet,[2] where they met the mystic Belgian painter William Degouve de Nuncques in 1899.[3]

He was most known for his plays, and landscape and garden paintings. He died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens.

Gardens of Aranjuez

Portrait of Utrillo

Girona

Rouen Street, France

Figure Study

Terraced Garden in Mallorca 1904

1891 Sketch of Erik Satie playing a harmonium, by Rusiñol]]

Platans

Terraced Garden in Mallorca 1911

Jardio Senyorial

Blue Courtyard. Arenys de Munt

Park

Works
Paintings

Terraced Garden in Mallorca (1904)
Terraced Garden in Mallorca (1911) - different painting

Not chronologically listed:

After the War. The Sad Home
Alley in Genoa
Avenue of Plained Trees
Balcony with Flowers and Curtain
Before the Morphine
Blue Courtyard, Aryens de Munt
Boats on the Seine
Bridge Over a River
La Butte
Café Montmartre
Calvary of Sagunto
The Countryside
The Countryside by the Castle
Garden of Montmartre
Gardens of Aranjuez (1907)
Girona
Entrance to the Park of Moulin de la Galette
Female Figure
Figure Study
Fulls de la Vida
Garden of Montmartre
Gardens of the Generalife
Interior of the Café
Interior of the Víznar Palace
Jardio Senyorial
Laboratory of La Galette
The Landing Stage
Landscape
Laughing Girl
Madeleine
Maples (Platans)
Montmartre Cemetery
Montserrat
Moulin de La Galette
Moulin de La Galette - Shooting Gallery
Moulin de La Galette - Ticket Seller
Moulin de La Galette - Waiting for Customers
On Campaign
Park
Portrait of a Boy
Portrait of Ramon Casas
Portrait of Ricard Planells
Portrait of Erik Satie at the Harmonium
Portrait of Utrillo (two images)
A Romance
Romantic Novel
Rouen Street, France
Sant Benet de Bages Cloister
Senyor Quer in the Garden
Sitges Interior
Sóller Mallorca
Son Moragues
Summer Shower
Valley with Oranges
White Farmhouse, Bunyola, Majorca

Drawings

Concert Musicians
Conde de Cabra. Sr. Garro
Copy from a Wrought Iron Lamp from Nicolas Grosso
Farming
Farmer with Barretina
Farmer Types
Figure Study and Study of a Dog
Figures Study
Figures Study - second drawing
Gardens of the Generalife - different drawing than to the painting
Gateway Arch and Wall, Granada
Grove
Head of a Man Smoking a Pipe
Head of an Old Man
Landscape, City Outskirts
El mascaró de proa
Open-air Tea
Pisa Cemetery
Portrait of a Man - six different sketches
Portrait of Pere Ferran
Portrait of Carles Mani
Portrait of Genís Muntaner
Portrait of Salvador Robert
Portrait of Alfred Sainati
Portrait of the Sculptor Carles Mani and Painter Pere Ferran
Rustic Courtyard
Seated Girl
Seated Man from Behind
Sketch of Erik Satie playing a harmonium
Sketch from Life
Sketch of a Port
Study of a Garden
Study of a Male Head - four different sketches
Study of a Woman and Children
Study of Children and Figures of Men
The Virgin from the "Vision of St. Bernard" by Filippo Lippi, based on a painting by Filippo Lippi
View of Barcelona Port
Village Street, Granada
Waiting for Customers
Washing Place Interior

References

Isabel Coll, 2000.p 62
https://books.google.com/books/about/El_archiduque_Luis_Salvador_Rub%C3%A9n_Dar%C3%AD.html?id=iwANAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y El archiduque Luis Salvador, Rubén Darío y Santiago Rusiñol en Mallorca

Book mentioning Casa Trinxet. Google Books. 1998-10-27. Retrieved 2012-08-11.