Karol Broniatowski (1945-) was a Polish sculptor living in Berlin, creating sculptures of human figures from newsprint, as well as a graphic artist and draughtsman. Between 1964 and 1970 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, being a pupil of Professor Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz. Between 1969 and 1974, he created three groups of sculptures, with around 50 figures in each group. The first group contained walking male nudes, while the second group contained standing female nudes, with arms crossed over the head. In 1972, his works in the form of newsprint figures were presented at the XXXVI Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale and in Philadelphia, Paris, Mannheim. In addition, they have been shown in galleries in New York, Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels. Thanks to a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) grant, Broniatowski settled in Berlin in 1976. There he began work on his 'Big Man' series, which included figures of a walking man 18.8 metres tall. These monumental sculptures were made of newsprint and granite, divided into 93 parts. These parts were placed in various localities and collections. In 1977, he presented 'Object 93 - the second presentation of Big Man', which consisted of 93 eggs made of polished bronze, arranged on a slab and reflecting each other. In 1978, he presented 'Stukkah - Big Man's third presentation', which consisted of sending 93 signals - taps on a microphone using the Morse alphabet. In 1979, at the Museum of Art in Łódź, he created 'Head of Sand'. It was a plaster mould filled with sand. Gradually removing successive layers of the mould, he uncovered the hidden sand, until finally only scattered sand remained. In 1981, he presented 'folding and unfolding sculptures' - a sculptor's self-portrait made up of many layers. In 1985, he embarked on the 'small walkers' project - 93 small bronze figures, each 25 cm high, showing figures walking in a uniform rhythm with their left leg forward, arranged in various configurations. Broniatowski has taken part in many competitions for monuments. In 1991, he created the 'Monument to the deported Jews of Berlin at Berlin-Grunewald railway station', which is a 20-metre-long block of concrete with recessed silhouettes of people. In 1996, commissioned by the LGT Bank in Liechtenstein, he created 'The Foot of Bendern', a 5.15-metre-high bronze sculpture depicting a fragment of the foot of an invisible giant.