Miguel Ortíz y Berrocal was an artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

 known for his puzzle

Puzzle

A puzzle is a problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver. In a basic puzzle, one is intended to put together pieces in a logical way in order to come up with the desired solution...

 sculpture

Sculpture

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s. He was born in Villanueva de Algaidas

Villanueva de Algaidas

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, Málaga

Málaga

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, Spain

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, and married Maria Cristina de Bragança (the daughter of Portuguese throne pretender Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança). He received formal training in mathematics, architecture, chemistry, and art. Berrocal ran a foundry

Foundry

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal in a mold, and removing the mold material or casting after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals processed are aluminum and cast iron...

 in Negrar near Verona, Italy.

He died in Antequera

Antequera

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 of prostate cancer

Prostate cancer

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(http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_4646.shtml).

External links

• Berrocal.net - official site of the sculptor
• Puzzle World: Miguel Berrocal
• Sculpture Magazine: The Puzzle of Existence: Miguel Berrocal
• Sipleda: Miguel Berrocal
• Obituary of Miguel Berrocal
• Google translation of the obituary above into English