Amor na Pegazie, Wrocław

Amor na Pegazie is the monument before you: a cast-bronze Cupid rides Pegasus above a limestone pedestal, created by Theodor von Gosen. Notice Cupid’s marble eyes and Pegasus’s topaz eyes, tiny details that give the figures an unexpectedly vivid presence. The mythological pair makes love and poetry the theme of this compact public artwork.

The sculpture was made in nineteen thirteen and unveiled on the fourteenth of June nineteen fourteen. Before it reached this park, it appeared in the Silesian Artists’ Association pavilion during the Centennial Exhibition near Centennial Hall. In the following year, the monument came to this park.

Its setting is at the park’s eastern end, behind the former Leipziger Palace, beside the Municipal Moat on the Old Town Promenade near Teatralna Street. The cast sculpture stands about two metres high, while its limestone support reaches much the same height. The generous base lifts this playful image above the surrounding greenery, letting Pegasus’s energy carry the scene even at a distance.