Sculpture of the characters from the film "The Enchanted Pencil"

The sculpture of the characters from the film The Enchanted Pencil stands in front of Dom Kultury Łodzi (House of Culture) at ulica Traugutta 18, in the very centre of the city. It depicts a boy named Piotrek drawing with an enchanted pencil on the wall of the building, his dog Pimpka jumping out of the drawing, and a gnome accompanying them.

History of the Enchanted Pencil

The series The Enchanted Pencil was created in the second half of the 1960s and was broadcast until 1977. It told the story of the adventures of a boy named Piotrek and his dog Pimpka, who were helped by an enchanted pencil: everything they drew with its help materialised into reality. The series was made at the Łódź studio Se-ma-for (Studio of Small Film Forms), the same production company that created many other characters now present on the streets of Łódź in the form of monuments.

What the sculpture depicts

The composition shows the moment of drawing on the wall of Dom Kultury Łodzi: the dog Pimpek appears to be literally jumping out of the drawn line, and next to him stands a gnome, a character who in the series provided the heroes with successive copies of the enchanted pencil. Such an arrangement, with the boy by the wall and the dog jumping out of the drawing, directly refers to the mechanism driving the series plot, in which the boundary between drawing and reality is constantly blurred. The sculpture was unveiled on 25 September 2011, not quite a year after the appearance in the city of the sculpture of Pik-Pok, the first in a series of fairy tale monuments.

Fairy Tale Łódź Trail

The sculpture is part of the Fairy Tale Łódź Trail, which includes ten monuments depicting characters from animated films created in Łódź. Another point on the trail is the sculpture of the small penguin Pik-Pok standing by Aquapark Fala, which can be reached from the centre by several public transport lines: sculpture of the small penguin Pik-Poka.

Practical information

• Address: ul. Traugutta 18, Łódź, Śródmieście-Centrum, in front of the entrance to Dom Kultury Łodzi
• Getting there: city centre, near tram and bus stops
• Access: the sculpture stands in an open space in front of the building and is visible at all times, regardless of Dom Kultury Łodzi opening hours
• Good point to combine with a walk around other sites on the Fairy Tale Łódź Trail in the city centre