German Museum

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It is an original open-air museum created by the German artist Manfred Gnädinger, known for Man the German Camelle. He arrived in this parish of Camariñas in the 60s of the twentieth century. In Camelle he created his Eden of fantasy and solitude, the place that gave him the inner peace he was looking for and where he could give life to his artistic work.

He asked each visitor to his museum to make a drawing in one of his notebooks, it was a way of relating to others since for Man in “each paper is the soul of each one and my goal is to make a great skyscraper with all of them”.

In this museum we can observe the bright colors and the numerous circles that represent the continuous cycle of life, repetitive, from which there is no escape. Existentialist thoughts enveloped the life and work of this unique character that we found, at any time of the year, dressed only in a loincloth. The shipwreck of the Prestige stained his works, his children, as he called them, black. He did not get over this disaster and died on April Fool’s Day in November 2002.

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