Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste

Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste
born April 2, 1834, Colmar, Alsace, Fr.
died Oct. 4, 1904, Paris

French sculptor.

He studied sculpture and painting in Paris. In 1865 he and several others conceived the idea for a monument to the Franco-American alliance of 1778. Beginning work in 1870, Bartholdi designed the huge statue that would come to be known as the "Statue of Liberty" (1875–86) and was able to see its construction through using funds he raised in both France and the U.S. While not as famous, his masterpiece is the Lion of Belfort (1871–80), carved out of the red sandstone of a hill overlooking Belfort in eastern France.

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▪ French sculptor
born April 2, 1834, Colmar, Alsace, France
died Oct. 4, 1904, Paris
 French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty, Statue of) 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 J.-F. Soitoux. He toured the Middle East in 1856 with several “Orientalist” painters, including Jean-Léon Gérôme (Gérôme, Jean-Léon). In 1865 he and several others conceived an idea for a monument to the Franco-American Alliance of 1778.

 Beginning work in 1870, Bartholdi designed the huge statue on his own initiative and was able to see its construction through using funds he raised in both France and the United States. Dedicated in 1886, the statue was titled, in full, Liberty Enlightening the World and was given to the United States by France. The Statue of Liberty is Bartholdi's best-known work, but his masterpiece among monumental projects is the Lion of Belfort (completed 1880), which is carved out of the red sandstone of a hill that towers over the city of Belfort in eastern France. Once a macabre collective tomb for the National Guard of Colmar (1872), this is the best known of Bartholdi's many patriotic sculptures that were inspired by the French defeat in the Franco-German War of 1870–71.
 

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