A German street performer took time to impress commuters as he seemingly defied gravity leaning against a wall in Madrid.

Crowds gathered to marvel at Johan Lorbeer, an artist and illusionist known in his home country of Germany.

Famous for his "Still-Life" Performances, the artists usually features in an apparently impossible position such as sitting down without a chair or dressing up as a street cleaner and standing horizontally out from a wall high above the street.

Installations he is known for in Germany include "Proletarian Mural and "Tarzan".

Pictured here at Madrid's Atocha train station, he has been known to remain elevated for hours at a time as citizens and tourists look on surprised.

Unfortunately however Mr Lorbeer has not mastered the power of levitation and the gravity-defying feat is merely a stunt.

His outstretched "arm" that he uses to lean against the wall is actually a support beam that he is then harnessed to. The real arm is really tucked inside his clothes.