The Cau Ferrat in Sitges is one of Santiago Rusiñol’s most important creations. Painter, collector, writer and playwright, Rusiñol assembled, at his home in Sitges, the diverse collections he started while still in his teens and that he kept in the atelier he shared in Barcelona with his friend, the sculptor Enric Clarasó. This year we are celebrating the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the inauguration of the Cau Ferrat in Sitges on November 4th, 1894. On that day, Rusiñol, accompanied by an important delegation of the most outstanding representatives in Catalan culture, moved two works by El Greco there that he had acquired shortly before in Paris.
The diverse activities carried out at, or organized from, the Cau would make Rusiñol's home in Sitges the epicenter of Catalan Modernisme. This exhibition aims to explain the origin of this project, its consolidation and its main raison d’être: the assemblage of the painter’s different collections, as an expression of Total Art.
SPACES
1. THE COUNTRY UNDER STUDY. THE ORIGINS OF SANTIAGO RUSIÑOL’S PASSION FOR COLLEC
1. THE COUNTRY UNDER STUDY. THE ORIGINS OF SANTIAGO RUSIÑOL’S PASSION FOR COLLECTING
2. COLLECTING AND THE STUDY OF ANTIQUE CATALAN WROUGHT IRON
2. COLLECTING AND THE STUDY OF ANTIQUE CATALAN WROUGHT IRON
3. THE ATELIER, THE EXPRESSION OF THE MODERN ARTIST
3. THE ATELIER, THE EXPRESSION OF THE MODERN ARTIST
OBJECTS
![<p><strong>Joan Maragall, Narcís Oller, Santiago Rusiñol, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Josep Pin i Soler, Tell [et al]</strong></p>
<p>Festa Modernista at the Cau Ferrat. Literary competition held in Sitges on November 4th, 1894. Third Year. (Facsimile)</p>
<p>Biblioteca Popular Santiago Rusiñol, Sitges</p>](https://visitmuseum.gencat.cat/media/cache/700x400/uploads/objects/photos/5e2ae7bacbe32_.jpg)
INFORMATION
ADDRESS
C/ Fonollar, s/n08870 Sitges (Barcelona)
TELEPHONE
+34 93.894.03.64 ext.1WEBSITE
http://museusdesitges.cat/ca/compra-la-teva-entradaOPENING TIMES
- Tuesday to Sunday (including holidays): 10am to 7pm.
- Monday: closed.
