Sculpture: Oscar Wilde And Eduard Vilde

Sculpture: Oscar Wilde And Eduard Vilde / Esittely

The statue of the two writers, by Tiiu Kirsipuu, was constructed in 1999.

The imaginary conversation between the Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and Estonian writer Eduard Vilde (1865-1933), depicted in the statue, might have taken place in the year 1892, but actually, the two men never did meet. A copy of the sculpture was given as a gift from the town of Tartu to the Irish city of Galway in 2004.