Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal i Domnech, was born on May 11, 1904.

Dal's older brother, also named Salvador (born October 12, 1901), had died nine months earlier. Dal was a skilled artist, best

known for the strange images in his surrealist work. His painting skills are often thought to be
inspired by the influence of Renaissance masters. His most famous work was completed in 1931. Dal's large artistic range includes film, sculpture, and photography. Dal was highly imaginative, and also had a habit of doing very unusual things in order to draw attention to himself. This sometimes angered those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his attitude sometimes drew more attention than his artwork. Dal attended drawing school. In 1916, Dal also discovered modern painting on a summer vacation. The next year, Dal's father organized an exhibition of his charcoal drawings in their family home. He had his first public exhibition at the Municipal Theater in Figueres, Spain in 1919. In February 1921, Dal's mother died of breast cancer. Dal was sixteen years old. His father then married his mothers sister, Salvadors aunt. On January 23, 1989, he died of heart failure in Figueres at the age of 84. The location is across the street from the church of Sant Pere, where he had his baptism, first communion, and funeral, and is three blocks from the house where he was born.