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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty, in New York City, United States. Its construction was begun by Viollet-le-Duc, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France, until his death and then completed by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was a gift…
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culture · French sculptor and painter (1834–1904) · sculptor · painter · also Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Auguste Bartholdi, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste Sonntag, Amilcar Hasenfratz, Friedrich August Bartholdi
Born 2 August 1834 · Died 4 October 1904 · Q223274
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1922· 3 entries
Throughout his life Bartholdi maintained his childhood family home in Colmar; in 1922, it was made into the Musée Bartholdi.
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In the house in which he was born, at 30 Rue des Marchands
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It was made into the Musée Bartholdi
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1904· 1 entry
Died 1904-10-04.
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1893· 1 entry
Bartholdi and his wife visited the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where his Washington and Lafayette sculptural group was exhibited
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1886· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1886).
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On Liberty Island, at the entrance to New York harbor
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1879· 1 entry
Bartholdi was awarded design patent U
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1876· 3 entries
(plaster version in 1874) : Frieze and four angelic trumpeters on the tower of Brattle Square Church, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Married Jeanne-Emile Baheux in Providence, Rhode Island
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Bartholdi was one of the French commissioners in 1876 to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
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1875· 1 entry
Joined the Freemasons Lodge Alsace-Lorraine in Paris
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1874· 1 entry
The Union Franco-Américaine (Franco-American Union) was established by Edouard de Laboulaye
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1871· 2 entries
Made his first trip to the United States, where he pitched the idea of a massive statue gifted from the French to the Americans in honor of the centennial of American independence
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Not finishing the massive sandstone statue until 1880
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1869· 1 entry
Bartholdi returned to Egypt to propose a new lighthouse to be built at the entrance of the Suez Canal, which was newly completed
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1865· 1 entry
By his friend Édouard René de Laboulaye, resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
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1855· 1 entry
And 1856, Bartholdi traveled in Yemen and Egypt with travel companions such as Jean-Léon Gérôme and other "orientalist" painters
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1853· 1 entry
Bartholdi submitted a Good Samaritan-themed sculptural group to the Paris Salon of 1853
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1834· 1 entry
Born 1834-08-02.
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