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SALVADOR DALÍ

BIOGRAPHY

Salvador Dalí I Domènech was born on 11 May 1904 in Figueres (Girona). Dalí died in Figueres on 23 January 1989. He was a painter and a sculptor. 

He was born nine months and ten days after his brother died. Because of that, his parents spoiled him. His first self-portrait is: “The ill child”.

Dalí studied at the School of Fine Arts in San Fernando, Madrid in 1921 but he was expelled because of his eccentricity.

During his military service, Dalí made his first “Daliniana” work. In 1929 he travelled to Paris, came into contact with the group of surrealists headed by André Breton and Gala. From that time on, Gala never left his side. In 1934 entered into a civil matrimony with Gala. When the German Troops entered Bordeaux, the Dalí couple moved the United States, where they remained until 1948.       

                            

In July 1948, the Dalí couple came back to Catalonia. Dalí painted pictures, wrote and designed jewelry, but what he liked the most was painting, and that was what made him famous. In 1973 a year before its opening, the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, he presented the Dalí’s exhibition. 

I like and admire him for his work. Dalí is a very important painter in Catalonia and in the whole world.

He was a Catalan painter and was well known, despiste his eccentricism. Well, he was probably so famous because of that.