In what year was Salvador Dalí born?

Salvador Dalí was born in 1904. He was born on 11 May in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, and was named Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech.

Dalí’s older brother, also named Salvador, had died before the artist’s birth. Dalí later said that his parents treated him as his dead brother’s replacement, an idea that influenced his lifelong interest in identity, memory, and psychological symbolism.

He grew up in Figueres and nearby Cadaqués, where the coastal landscape became important in his art. The region’s rocky coast and unusual geological shapes appear in several of his paintings.

Dalí is often grouped with the Surrealists, but his career included painting, sculpture, film, photography, design, and writing. He became one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century.