Walking Man is a giant sculpture by the American artist Jonathan Borofsky on Leopoldstraße in Munich, next to the Munich Re premises. It was presented to the public on September 21, 1995. Borofsky was one of six artists invited to compete for the design of Munich Re's new building.
The figure is 56 feet (17 meters) tall and weighs 35,000 pounds (16 tonnes). Borofsky created it in Los Angeles over more than a year. It was shipped to Munich in nine pieces. The press received it well, and the public took to it.
Borofsky had earlier shown a 25-meter (82-foot) work, Man Walking to the Sky, at Documenta 9. The Munich figure was presented in 1995 by Hans-Jürgen Schinzler, then head of Munich Re, and Christian Ude, then mayor of Munich.
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