Santiago Rusiñol

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Statue of Santiago Rusiñol in Sitges.
Erik Satie playing a harmonium, 1891.

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (Catalan pronunciation: [səntiˈaɣu ruziˈɲɔɫ]) (February 25, 1861 - June 13, 1931) was a Catalan post-impressionist/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 is play writes, and landscape and garden paintings.

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