Originally built in Lwów (German: Lemberg) in 1897 according to Leonard Marconi's design, the monument was transferred to Wrocław in 1956.

The monument was designed by sculptor Leonard Marconi in 1897 in Lemberg (Lwów), Austria-Hungary (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) and cast in bronze.

The Neo-classical sculpture features playwright Aleksander Fredro on a sandstone pedestal with inscriptions on three sides wearing a chamarre and holding a roll of paper and a goose quill.

[5] Besides this, Aleksander Fredro visited Wrocław in the past as a young military officer fighting alongside Napoleon.

It was unveiled on July 15, 1956, at the Wrocław Market Square in the place previously occupied by the Monument to Frederick William III of Prussia.