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Arthur Rubinstein’s Piano

Arthur Rubinstein’s Piano
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Jaracz's Chair

Unveiled on June 10, 2006, here’s yet another work from the hand of Marcel Szytenchelm. Melded from bronze this number depicts Stefan Jaracz (1883-1945), a distinguished star of the Polish stage. Read_on (No Comments)

Julian Tuwim’s Bench

Łódź-born Julian Tuwim (1894 - 1953) was a Jewish writer and poet who studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University and was the co-founder and leader of the Skamander group in 1919. Read_on (No Comments)

Miś Uszatek Monument

What started off as a novelty has now turned into a downright obsession with monuments. One of the latest to appear on the streets is a one metre, sixty kilo bronze bear. Read_on (No Comments)

Monument to the 1905 Insurrection

Designed by Franciszek Karpiński this statue is typical of 70s Polish art, and commemorates the 1905 industrial insurrection against Imperial Russia. Read_on (No Comments)

Pope

Unveiled on June 4, 2000 to coincide with the two thousand years of Christianity celebrations and 80 years of the Łódź diocese, Krystyna Fałdyga-Solska’s 2. Read_on (No Comments)

Statue of Leon Schiller

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Tadeusz Kościuszko

Dominating the north end of Piotrkowska stands the towering figure of Poland’s most celebrated revolutionary. As the driving Read_on (No Comments)

The Lamp Man

Appearing in September 2007 Marcel Szytenchelm’s latest creation is the rather curious figure of a bloke climbing a ladder to fit a bulb onto a streetlight. Read_on (No Comments)

Three Factory Owners

Łódź is generally believed to be the creation of three visionary industrialists, celebrated here in a bronze statue dating from 2002. Read_on (No Comments)

Victims of Communism

Idiotic monuments have become de rigeur in Łódź, so here’s one that actually merits it’s existence. Read_on (No Comments)

Władysław Reymont’s Trunk

Polish writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924. Brought up in the town of Tuszyn, close to Łódź, his early life proved inauspicious, with his only formal certificate of education being a qualification as a journeyman tailor. Read_on (No Comments)