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| Santiago Rusiñol Prats |
| 1861 - 1931 |
| European Artist |
| Santiago Rusiñol Prats was a Spanish/Catalan modernist painter, author, and playwright. After a travel to Paris (1889) where he lived in Montmartre with Ramon Casas and with Ignacio Zuloaga, his picture adapted grey tonalities following the Whistler manner and influenced by impressionists. His production of that period are basically landscapes, urban themes, portraits and also Art Nouveau symbolic compositions. From 1896 and after a travel to Andalusia, he started to paint gardens. From his return to Barcelona he was one of the most active developers of Art Nouveau movement. In the same place he organized the famous Modernist Festivals. In addition of his activities as a painter, he also was a reputed writer. Rusiñol started to write at the age of twenty. His first writings were nature descriptions and also letters. He wrote various plays with enormous success and also big series of dramas, comedies and vaudevilles, culminating in 1917 with the theater version of L'auca del senyor Esteve. In order to defend the Modernisme (Catalan Art Nouveau) against his adversaries of the Noucentisme - movement following the modernisme in Catalonia - he used the alias of Xarau in his writings in the magazines. Rusiñol died in Aranjuez - Spain - in 1931. |
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