Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
1904-1989
Biography
• Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech
was born on May 11, 1904, in the small
agricultural town of Figueres, Spain, in the
foothills of the Pyrenees.(his older brother
with the same name died 9 months prior to
his birth)
Is it me or is that just weird? Wait it gets
weirder…
• When he was 5 Dali was taken to his
brother’s grave and told by his parents that
he was the reincarnation of his brother. A
concept which he came to believe.
Early entries in Dali’s sketchbook
• Attends drawing school at age 12.
Crucifixion, 1954
Sacrament of the Last supper 1955
Still-life Fast moving 1956
“There is only one difference between a
madman and me. I am not mad.” --
Salvador Dalí
• In 1974, Dali opened the Teatro Museo Dali in
Figueres, Spain. This was followed by retrospectives
in Paris and London at the end of the decade
• After the death of his wife, Gala, in 1982, Dali's
health began to fail. It deteriorated further after he
was burned in a fire in his home in Pubol in 1984.
• Two years later, a pacemaker was implanted. Much
of this part of his life was spent in seclusion, first in
Pubol and later in his apartments at the Torre
Galatea, adjacent to the Teatro Museo.
• Dali died January 23, 1989 in Figueres from heart
failure with respiratory complications.