Where can you see Santiago Rusiñol in Barcelona?

At the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya: The Kitchens of the Moulin de la Galette, Portrait of Miquel Utrillo and Romantic Novel. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Santiago Rusiñol's most famous work in Barcelona?

The Kitchens of the Moulin de la Galette, of 1890, at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. A quiet, empty yard behind the Montmartre dance hall he lived above, in the grey light he painted there.

When and where was Santiago Rusiñol born?

On 25 February 1861, at Barcelona, Spain. Santiago Rusiñol died on 13 June 1931, at Aranjuez, Spain, aged about 70.

What is Santiago Rusiñol known for?

Lived with Casas at the Moulin de la Galette in 1890. His house in Sitges, the Cau Ferrat, is a museum. One of the four behind Els Quatre Gats. Santiago Rusiñol was a Catalan painter, of Modernisme.

Painter, 1861 to 1931

Santiago Rusiñol

Santiago Rusiñol turned his back on the family textile business to paint. With Ramon Casas he brought the grey light of Paris home to Barcelona, and in Sitges he staged the festivals that launched modernisme.

Born: 1861, Barcelona, Spain
Died: 1931, Aranjuez, Spain
Movement: Modernisme
In Barcelona: 3 works in 1 museum

Where to see Santiago Rusiñol in Barcelona

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya3 works

The Kitchens of the Moulin de la Galette
1890
A quiet, empty yard behind the Montmartre dance hall he lived above, in the grey light he painted there.
Portrait of Miquel Utrillo
1890
His friend, the critic and painter Miquel Utrillo, standing in a hat among pots of plants, painted in Paris the year they lived together.
Romantic Novel
1894
A young woman reading alone by a fireplace, the kind of still, pale interior he painted in the 1890s.

The life of Santiago Rusiñol

Rusiñol was the grandson of a textile manufacturer and was meant to run the mills. He went to Paris instead, and in 1890 lived with Casas and Miquel Utrillo at the Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre, painting its quiet corners in greys and blues.

Back home he bought a house in Sitges, the Cau Ferrat, filled it with ironwork and paintings, and held the modernista festivals there in the 1890s. He was also a playwright and novelist, and in his later years painted gardens all over Spain.

What to know

Lived with Casas at the Moulin de la Galette in 1890
His house in Sitges, the Cau Ferrat, is a museum
One of the four behind Els Quatre Gats

Born: 25 February 1861, Barcelona, Spain
Died: 13 June 1931, Aranjuez, Spain