Luis Buñuel
- Filmmaker
Met · 1922
At the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, with Dalí. The friendship cooled after Un Chien Andalou, which Lorca took to be aimed at him; Buñuel denied it.
- Poet
- Playwright
Federico García Lorca
Poet and playwright, and the closest friend of Dalí's student years at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. Nationalist forces shot him near Granada in August 1936, a month into the civil war; his grave has never been found.
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Details
- 1898–1936
- 1898
- 1936
- Spanish
- PoetPlaywright
About Federico García Lorca
Lorca arrived at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid in 1919 and stayed most of a decade, in the years when it held Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel at the same time. He published Romancero gitano in 1928 and became, very quickly, the most widely read poet in Spain. The plays came later and are what he is staged for now: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, finished two months before he died.
His friendship with Dalí was the central relationship of both young men's lives, and on Lorca's side it was love. Dalí's accounts of it changed with each telling. In August 1936, a month into the civil war, Nationalist forces took Lorca from a house in Granada and shot him. He was thirty-eight. The grave has never been found, and the search for it continues.
People they knew
Salvador Dalí
- Painter
- Filmmaker
- Sculptor
Met · 1922
At the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, where both were students. It became the closest friendship of Dalí's life and, on Lorca's side, more than that; Dalí's later accounts of it contradict one another and cannot all be true.
Federico García Lorca’s Places
Sourced claims
Met · 1922
Luis Buñuel
At the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, with Dalí. The friendship cooled after Un Chien Andalou, which Lorca took to be aimed at him; Buñuel denied it.
Visited · 1925
Cadaqués
Federico García Lorca made his first visit to Cadaqués during Holy Week in 1925, at the height of his close friendship and artistic exchange with Salvador Dalí.
Met · 1922
Salvador Dalí
At the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, where both were students. It became the closest friendship of Dalí's life and, on Lorca's side, more than that; Dalí's later accounts of it contradict one another and cannot all be true.