Cau Ferrat Museum

Cau Ferrat, placed in Sitges in Catalonia in Spain turned into the home and study of artist and author Santiago Rusinol, one of the most crucial figures of the Modernisme motion in Catalonia. It is one of the three museums in Sitges positioned at the beaches of Sant Sebastia beach. Born right into a bourgeois Catalan commercial family from Manlleu, Santiago Rusinol I Prats Barcelona, 1861 – Aranjuez, 1931 become asked with the aid of his paternal grandfather and godfather, Jaume Rusinol, to preserve the family way of life and end up a cotton manufacturer. Instead, the younger Rusinol chose to go into the Catalan and Spanish art scene.

A painter, narrator, collector, dramatist, newbie archaeologist, journalist and key parent of the Modernista motion, Santiago Rusinol born of art as a priesthood and of the artist as the chosen one who, because of an ineluctable calling, is predestined to the sacrifice of residing his ideal to the ultimate outcomes. It turned into from Sitges that Rusinol unfold his concept of Total Art, of art as a new religion. The birthday celebration of the Festes Modernistes 1892-1899, the constructing of the Cau Ferrat 1893-1894 and the inauguration of the monument to El Greco 1898 made Sitges the Mecca of Modernisme and Rusinol the high priest of his new motion that aspired to transform society via lifestyle. Thanks to this, Rusinol became capable to accumulate his very own private mythos.