Salvador Dali

Dalí: was born in Figueres, a small town at the foot of the Pyrenees, about 25 kilometers from the French border, in Catalonia (Spain) on May 11, 1904. In his younger years, Dalí was interested in painters such as El Greco, Francisco Goya, Michelangelo and Diego Velázquez. At that time, he turned his attention to Impressionism and Cubism. Salvador Dalí studied in Madrid from 1921 to 1924. Already at that time, probably to draw attention to himself, he was an eccentric figure. In 1926 he went to Paris. There he met Pablo Picasso and André Breton. In 1929, he was welcomed by Breton and joined Surrealism. In the US, Dalí worked for years as a consultant and illustrator for the famous Walt Disney. Dalí was also known for his moustache, which was thin, elongated and gracefully curved. Like antennae, both moustache tips pointed upwards or were curled. Dalí claimed that he received inspiration from the cosmos through his whiskers. His mustache was inspired by that of another world-famous Spanish painter, Diego Velázquez. On January 23, 1989, Dalí himself died of cardiac arrest in the Galatea Tower of the Dalí Theater Museum in Figueres, where he lived for the last years of his life. He was buried here in a crypt under the stage.