Dalí Theater-Museum

Entrance to the museum in the Torre Gorgot

The Teatre-Museu Dalí (Spanish: Teatro-Museo Dalí ; German: Theatermuseum Dalí ) is a museum for the artist Salvador Dalí in his Catalan hometown of Figueres .

history

The current museum building housed the city's theater in Dalí's childhood and was the place where Dalí's paintings were first exhibited. The older building was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War and remained in ruins for decades until Dalí and the Mayor of Figueres decided together in 1960 to rebuild it as a museum.

The museum opened in 1974 and expanded progressively in the 1980s. Dalí was buried in the crypt under the glass dome of the museum.

collection

The most important of the works shown in the museum from the early (1917–1928), surrealist (1929–1940) and classical periods (1941–1983) include: Self-portrait with L'Humanité (1923), Port Alguer (1924), Das Gespenst des Sex-Appeal (1932), Portrait of Galas with two lamb chops in balance on the shoulder (1933), Soft Self-Portrait with Roasted Bacon (1941), the sculpture Poetry of America - The Cosmic Athletes (1943), Galarina (1944/45), Bread Basket (1945), Leda Atomica (1949) and Spherical Galatea (1952).

Images (selection)

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  Detail of the museum with lettering

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  The glass dome of the museum

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  The inner courtyard, on the right the rain taxi , first exhibited in 1938 at the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris

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  Gravestone in the crypt

Web links

Commons : Teatre-Museu Dalí  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Museu-Teatre Dalí at Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí (in Catalan, Spanish, English and French)
• Teatre-Museu Dalí , video

Coordinates: 42 ° 16 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 2 ° 57 ′ 34 ″  E