Salvador Dali was born May 11, 1904 in Figures, Spain. His fater was a prosperous notary. He grew up in his house in Figures as well as well as his family's summer home in the coastal city of Cadaques. It was in their summer home that his parents built him his first studio.
When he was young he attended he San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. He was expelled from the academy for indicipline in 1923. He wrote the screen play for Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou which was produced in 1928. He became internationaly known, when, in 1928 he was featured in the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh.
In 1929 he fell in love with a Women named Gala, who, was already maried at the time. When her husband died She maried Dali. In 1942 they moved to the US. After thirteen years they moved back to spain. There he spent his summers in a fishermans hut. Out side of the hut was a stuffed polar bear used to hang unbrellas on.
Later Gala moved into a castle Dali had restored for her. She only let him visit if, in advance he sent her a leter requesting it. The night she died he entombed her in the castle crypt and moved in. There he lived his last years. In his old age he was very reclusive. He was taken care of by his manservent and four round-the-clock nurses. "Geiuses never die" he said, but seven years later in 1989 at the age of eighty-four he did.
