Frankfurt has some interesting urban sculptures. Besides the enormous Euro signs in front of the European Bank office, you can see a 21 meters tall Hammering Man, an enormous tie in front of an office building and a train wagon crashed halfway through the pavement.
The “Inverted Collar and Tie” you can see above is a sculpture designed in 1994 by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The DG Bank (Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank) ordered the artwork in 1993 and it was made in California. The artwork is an ironic allusion to the business people wearing “collar and tie” who work in the Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank’s office tower and in the Frankfurt banking district around.
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