The Mayor of the city, Hugo Wolff, went to Berlin, to approach Lepcke's late brother and buy the original masterpiece, not one of several copies the artist had made.

[2] Hugo Wolff had entertained good relationship with Ferdinand Lepcke since the sculptor designed the colossal fountain The Deluge (Polish: potop) installed on Freedom Square in 1904.

[1] The statue arrived in Bromberg on August 26, 1910: the official unveiling ceremony took place on October 18, 1910, in the garden-cafe Teatralce, at the occasion of the 60th birthday of Louis Aronsohn.

The naked silhouette standing in the middle of the city aroused much emotion and discussion in the Polish society of the newly reborn Poland during interwar period.

[4] A proposal was made to erect a statue of Jesus Christ in its place, since it stood on the ancient plot of the monastery and church of the Carmelites.

[5] But people sobered up when Cyryl Ratajski, president of Poznań, proposed to purchase The Archer back for its city if the bill was passed.

Hence the monument survived, but it was moved anyhow further away from the street around 1925, deeper into Theatre Square and closer to the river, avoiding direct eye contact with city inhabitants.

[6] In 1955, the sculpture was moved to a square next to the district museum on Gdańska Street, and in 1960, to the Jan Kochanowski Park, in front of the Polish Theatre.

This move was linked to the planned re-construction on Theatre Square of the Freedom Monument of Plac Wolności, however the project never took shape, and The Archer stayed where one can admire it.

[7] While the original statue by Ferdinand Lepcke has been purchased to be displayed in Bydgoszcz, few copies have been realized and sent to the following cities:[1] The archer is widely considered to be a work of great artistic beauty, as critics in the interwar period have already noticed.

The way to focus the viewer's attention on the illusory aim of the arrow - absolve the artist who did not hesitate to present his modern Artemis in all her naked beauty.