Salvador Dali's full name is Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domienech. He was born on May 11, 1904 in Figures, Spain. As a youth he attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. He held his first one-man show in 1925 in Barcelona
When three of his paintings were shown at the third annual Canegie Internation Exhibition in Pittsburgh, Philaidelphia in 1928 he gained international recognition.In 1929 he held a one-man show in Paris where he would later meet Gala Eluard his future wife. At this time Gala was already married to the poet Paul Eluard. She soon became Dali's lover as well as his business manager.They soon were married in 1934 at a civil ceremony and made their first trip to America. Dali became a leader in the Surrealist Movement andas the war approached, the apolitical Dali soon clashed with the Surrealists and he was expelled during a trial conducted by the group in 1934. Thus during the war he and his wife too refuge in America and returned to Spain after the War. After this time his international fame continued to grow, in 1974 he opened the Teatro Museo Dali in Figueres, Spain. Gala died in 1982, and Dali's health began to fail. It deteriorated further after he was severely burned in a fire in Gala's castle in 1984. Two years later, he recieved a pacemaker. 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. He eventually dies from heart failure in 1989.
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