The monument of Condotierro Bartolomeo Colleoni

The statue of Condotierro Colleoni on Lotników Square is a copy of the sculpture that adorns one of the squares of Venice.

After the opening of the City Museum in Szczecin in 1913, it presented, among others, a collection of antique sculptures which comprised about 100 exhibits, collected under the patronage of a city councillor and a member of the Reichstag - Heinrich Dohrn.

A collection of copies of renaissance sculptures was supposed to be a supplement to this collection. A well-known industrialist, Albert E. Toepfer funded a copy of the bronze equestrian statue of Condotierro Bartolomeo Colleoni and a marble copy of the statue of Moses by Michelangelo.

Colleoni’s sculpture is an exact copy of the original statue made by Andrea Verrocchio, which has been located in Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice since 1495.

The statue, like other museum collections in Wały Chrobrego, survived the war and in January 1948 was transferred to Warsaw. After many years’ negotiations, the statue was finally recovered and it put on the Lotników Square in 2002