Originally Posted by
Prangster
Thanks for the heads up guys I was being ever so slightly ironic
There were comparisons made at the time Gormley's Angel was installed between it and Speer's Icarus, both in terms of plagiarism and also some rather fanciful suggestions that erecting a "copy" of a Nazi statute was offensive to the Jewish population in the Northeast:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-42426028
I may be wrong, but I can't find any evidence that the Speer statue is extant. Can anyone confirm ?