Santiago Rusiñol
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Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (səntiˈaɣu ruziˈɲɔɫ) (February 25, 1861 - June 13, 1931) was a Catalan
Catalan people
The Catalans or Catalonians are the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia that form a historical nationality in Spain. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France are sometimes included in this definition...

  post-impressionist
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and Post-Impressionism...

/Symbolist painter, poet, and playwright.

He was born in Barcelona
Barcelona
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 in 1861, and died in Aranjuez
Aranjuez
Aranjuez is a town lying 48 km south of Madrid, in the southern part of the Community of Madrid. It is located at the confluence of the Tagus and Jarama rivers, 48 km from Toledo. As of 2009, it has a population of 54,055.-History:...

 in 1931 while painting its famous gardens.

He influenced Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

 as a modern artist, and also left a lot of modernist buildings in Sitges
Sitges
*Church of Sant Bartolomeu i Santa Tecla . It houses two Gothic sepulchres , belonging to the an older church located on the same site...

, a town in Catalonia
Catalonia
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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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