Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was born on the 11th May, 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia.

There Salvador Dali grew up as a son of a respectable notary public.

From 1914 to 1918 the eccentric boy visited the academy of the brothers of Marista in Figueres. There Salvador Dali could celebrate in 1921 also his first successful exhibition.

Afterwards Salvador Dali visited the academy in Madrid in which he also got to know Luis Bunuel and Federico Garcia Lorca. On account of constant rebellions Salvador Dali was condemned even to an prison sentence and had to leave, in the end, the academy.

Salvador Dali joined at first of the art current of the cubists and futurists, later of the surrealists and metaphysical painters.

Salvador Dalis work became certainly from his interest in Siegmund Freund and the psychoanalysis. Salvador Dalis most significant works are "the temptation of the saint Antonius", "the burning giraffe" and "the permanence of memory".

Beside his paintings Salvador Dali created also sculptures, graphics and book illustrations, for example, for Dantes "divine comedy".

Time of his life his wife Gala remained his muse, in spite of numerous love affairs.

On the 23rd January, 1989 Salvador Dali ill with Parkinson, died in his hometown.