The Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali doubtlessly counts among the most famous artists of the 20th century.
His encounter with the Italian Pittura Metafisica and the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud fueled his interest in the surrealist movement, which he joined in Paris in 1928. He would soon become the movement's most important and most consistent representatives. In his paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs and films, Salvador Dalí captured the hallucinatory world of his subconsciousness in a hyper-realistic Verist Surrealism. In doing so he employed the self-developed method of the trance-like "Paranoid-Critical Activity.
The unbelievable intensity of the distressed dream worlds of Salvador Dalí largely made for his fame as one of the greatest visionaries in art history. Numerous honors, among them the appointment to honorary doctor of the Académie de la Fourrure and to knight of the Alexander Order pour le Mérite for Science and Art as well as countless international exhibitions deliver proof of Salvador Dalí's extraordinary significance for art.