Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was born on the 11th May, 1904 in Figueres in 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 the Maristsn in Figueres. There Salvador could celebrate Dali in 1921 also his first successful exhibit.

Afterwards visited Salvador Dali the school 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 imprisonment and had to leave, in the end, the academy.

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

Salvador Dalis work became certainly from his interest to Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalysis. To Salvador Dalis to the most significant works belong " the temptation of the saint Antonius ", " the burning giraffe " and " the permanence of the recollection ".

Beside his paintings Salvador created Dali 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 ill with Parkinson Dali died in his hometown.