The Walking Man, completed in 1995, stands in front of the new Munich Re insurance company headquarters on the Leopoldstrasse in Munich. The sculpture has been situated so that people end up walking through the legs of the figure to enter and leave the building.

This 56 foot tall sculpture was made in sections at the La Paloma factory in Sun Valley, California. The sections were then transported to Munich where we spent five weeks bringing the parts together. The sculpture has a steel inner structure and a fiberglass outer shell. In fact, there is a steel staircase inside the upper body of the figure which allowed us to assemble the final sections of the sculpture from the inside. Before the interior of the sculpture was completely sealed off, we placed a metal time capsule inside the sculpture with written statements from both the workers who built the sculpture, as well as the workers at Munich Re.