Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, was born on May 11, 1904, at 8:47 am GMT in the town of Figueres,
in the Empordà region close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain. Dalí's older brother, also named Salvador
(b. October 12, 1901), had died of gastroenteritis, nine months earlier, on August 1, 1903. His father,
Salvador Dalí i Cusí, was a middle-class lawyer and notary whose strict disciplinarian approach was tempered
by his wife, Felipa Domenech Ferrés, who encouraged her son's artistic endeavors. When he was five,
Dalí was taken to his brother's grave and told by his parents that he was his brother's reincarnation, which he
came to believe, Of his brother, Dalí said: "we resembled each other like two drops of water,
but we had different reflections." "He was probably a first version of myself but conceived too much in the absolute."
Dalí also had a sister, Ana María, who was three years younger. In 1949 she published a book about her brother,
Dalí As Seen By His Sister. His childhood friends included future FC Barcelona footballers, Sagibarbá and Josep Samitier.
During holidays at the Catalan resort of Cadaqués, the trio played football together.
Dalí attended drawing school. In 1916 Dalí also discovered modern painting on a summer vacation to Cadaqués
with the family of Ramon Pichot, a local artist who made regular trips to Paris. The next year, Dalí'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 in 1919.
In February 1921, Dalís mother died of breast cancer. Dalí was sixteen years old; he later said his mother's
death "was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her I could not resign myself to the
loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul." After her death,
Dalís father married his deceased wifes sister. Dalí did not resent this marriage as some do think,
because he had a great love and respect toward his aunt. Source is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
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