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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (/ b ɑːr ˈ t ɒ l d i,-ˈ θ ɒ l-/ bar-T(H)OL-dee, French: [fʁedeʁik oɡyst baʁtɔldi]; April 2, 1834 – October 4, 1904) was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World , commonly known as the Statue of Liberty .
Mar 29, 2024 · October 4, 1904, Paris (aged 70) Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (born April 2, 1834, Colmar, Alsace, France—died October 4, 1904, Paris) was a French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Bartholdi trained to be an architect in Alsace and Paris and then studied painting with Ary Scheffer and sculpture with Antoine Etex and Jean ...
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Aug 17, 2021 · National Park Service, Statue of Liberty NM. The sculptor behind the Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was born in 1834 in Colmar, France in the Alsace region on the border of Germany. When Auguste was nine, his mother Charlotte moved with her children to Paris to enroll them at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and allow them to study ...
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, né le 2 août 1834 à Colmar et mort le 4 octobre 1904 à Paris, est un sculpteur, un peintre français et, à ses débuts, un photographe amateur de la photographie de voyage 1 . Il est notamment l'auteur de la célèbre statue de la Liberté (dont le titre exact est La Liberté éclairant le monde ), offerte par ...
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On February 18, 1879, the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) earned US Patent #11,023 for a "Design for a Statue." This statue, "Liberty Enlightening the World," would become one of the most famous monuments of world history. At a dinner party in 1865, Bartholdi and his host, historian Edouard-René de Laboulaye, had ...
Bartholdi was born in Colmar, in the Alsace region of France, to a family of German Protestant origin (the name was latinized from Barthold, probably in the late seventeenth century). His father, Jean-Charles, a counselor to the prefecture and well-to-do property owner, died when Auguste was two years old. His mother, Augusta Charlotte, moved ...
