Santiago Rusiñol

Rusiñol in 1906

Statue of Santiago Rusiñol in Sitges.

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (Catalan: [səntiˈaɣu ruziˈɲɔl], Spanish: [santiˈaɣo rusiˈɲol]; Barcelona, 25 February 1861 – Aranjuez, 13 June 1931) was a Catalan naturalist painter, author, 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 from Catalonia very influenced by that artist. He was a modernist artist and there is a street in Sant Cugat del Vallés, a town near Barcelona, with his name.