Salvador Dali

Dalí Domènech, Salvador (Figueres 1904 - 1989) Salvador Dalí considered himself a self-taught artist. However, he studied in Madrid at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in 1921, 1922 and 1924, from which he was expelled two years later. There, he met and became a good friend of García Lorca, Buñuel and artists and writers from the "27 Generation". In 1925 he participated in the Iberian Artists Exhibition , in Madrid and had his first one-man exhibition in Barcelona …showed first 75 words of 1080 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1080 total…health began to fail. It deteriorated further after he was severely burned in a fire in Gala's castle in Pubol, Spain, in 1984. Two years later, a pacemaker was implanted. Much of the years 1980-89 were spent in almost total seclusion, first in Pubol and later in his private room in the Torre Galatea, adjacent to the Teatro Museo Dali. On January 23, 1989, Salvador Dali died in a hospital in Figueres from heart failure and respiratory complications.