Amor na Pegazie, Wrocław

Pause beside the water and give yourself a moment with Amor na Pegazie, the Cupid on Pegasus monument. It belongs to Nicolaus Copernicus Park, beside the City Moat on the Old Town Promenade near Teatralna Street. From where you stand, you can take in the sculpture as a whole: it is an outdoor monumental work set on a tall pedestal.

Let your eyes travel calmly from the base toward the figures, then back to the path and water around it. The sculptor was Theodor von Gosen. He made the sculpture in 1913, while the monument was erected and unveiled in 1914.

Before coming here, the work served in the pavilion of the Silesian Artists’ Association during the 1913 Centennial Exhibition, held on the exhibition grounds around Centennial Hall. It reached this present site the following year. That history gives this quiet park sculpture an unexpectedly eventful past. You are standing not simply by a decorative landmark, but beside a work that moved from a major exhibition into Wrocław’s everyday landscape, where the moat, park path, and passing city life now form its setting.