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Man or O Alem\u00e1n was a German hermit and sculptor who lived in the village of Camelle, on the Costa da Morte, in Galicia (Spain). He spent much of his time building sculptures on the beach and tending to his small garden. In November 2002, when the oil spill of the Prestige destroyed his sculptures and the ecosystem of the area he lived in. News reports stated that locals believed that Man let himself die of melancholy and sadness, thus becoming a symbol of the destruction unleashed by the oil spill.[1][2]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsHermit and sculptor[edit]The Prestige[edit]References[edit]Bibliography[edit]External links[edit]Hermit and sculptor[edit]In 1962, Manfred Gn\u00e4dinger or “Man” arrived in the small village of Camelle on the Costa da Morte, in Galicia (Spain), from Boehringen at Lake Constance in southern Germany. His whereabouts before this period are unknown. He was described as having been well-dressed and educated, when he arrived. It is said that he went mad after falling in love with the teacher of the village and being rejected. A few years later, after studying ecological issues, he built himself a small hut on the beach of the village, next to the Atlantic Ocean, and spent the next thirty years in this place, where he quickly became an object of curiosity for the village. Inhabitants referred to him in Galician as O Alem\u00e1n (the German), then just “Man”, a name he eagerly accepted for its symbolism. Tall, with a long beard, and dressed only with a loincloth in any weather, he would swim out in the ocean, even after he was fifty years old. He had no electricity or running water in his hut, and was a strict vegetarian, eating only from the small organic garden he had created.[3]Man executed colorful sculptures out of stones, driftwood, animal remains and other elements washed up by the sea, which sometimes reminded people of Gaud\u00ed’s work. Tourists would come to visit the open-air museum he had created where the sculptures integrated into the natural landscape. Man’s only source of revenue was a small fee (1\u20ac as of 2002) he would ask from everyone visiting the Museum of the German. Man would also ask visitors to do drawings for him in small notebooks. More than 1000 of such notebooks were found after his death with around 200,000 drawings.[4]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4The Prestige[edit]On 13 November 2002, the oil tanker Prestige developed a huge leak in one of its tanks during a storm off the coast of Galicia. After four days, it split in half and sank into the Atlantic Ocean. A few days later, Man woke up to find his work ruined by an oil spill. Tons of oil had washed up on the beach where he lived. Most of his sculptures were irremediably destroyed and the oil even reached his house.[1]A month later, he was found dead in his hut. He had had circulatory and respiratory problems, but it became local legend that he died of melancholy and sadness at the sight of the destruction of his life’s work by the oil spill. The Camelle authorities organized and paid for his funeral, and hundreds of locals attended.[1]Thousands of birds and fish also died in the aftermath of the oil spill. Man’s museum, which he bequeathed to the ministry of education and cultural affairs, before his death, can still be visited in Camelle[5] even when there were big gales in November 2010[6] and February 2014. The museum was restored in December 2017.On the 10th anniversary of his death, Manfred Gnadinger was disinterred and cremated to be buried in his museum. This was one of his last wishes in his last will. Little more than 5 years later on January 27, 2018 he was buried in his museum.[citation needed]References[edit]Bibliography[edit]A pegada de Man, text and photos by Xo\u00e1n Abeleira, Xerais, Vigo (Galicia), 2006. This is the first book published of Manfred Gn\u00e4dinger.Cequera, Bernardo: Manfred, the German of Camelle. Film Documentary 60 min. (2008)Saunders, Tracy and Gn\u00e4dinger, Clemens:  They Think You Are Jesus  The Magical Madness of Man of Camelle, Priscillian Press, 2018External links[edit]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/manfred-gnadinger-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Manfred Gn\u00e4dinger – Wikipedia"}}]}]