Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834 – 1904) was a French sculptor who is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty.
Bartholdi was born to a family of German Protestant (Alsatian) heritage, with his family name Romanticized from Barthold. Bartholdi's father, a property owner and counselor to the prefecture, died when Bartholdi was two years old. Afterwards, Bartholdi moved to Paris, where another branch of their family resided. With the family often returning to spend long periods of time in Colmar, the family maintained ownership and visited their house in Alsace, which later became the Bartholdi Museum.
While in Colmar, Bartholdi took drawing lessons. In Paris, he studied sculpture and architecture Bartholdi attended the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris, and received a baccalaureat in 1852. He then went on to study architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts as well as painting under Ary Scheffer in his studio. Later, Bartholdi turned his attention to sculpture, which
In 1853, Bartholdi submitted a Good Samaritan-themed sculptural group to the Paris Salon of 1853. The statue was later recreated in bronze. Within two years of his Salon debut, Bartholdi was commissioned by his hometown of Colmar to sculpt a bronze memorial of Jean Rapp, a Napoleonic General.
In 1869, Bartholdi returned to Egypt to propose a new lighthouse to be built at the entrance of the Suez Canal, which was newly completed. The lighthouse, which was to be called Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia and shaped as a massive draped figure holding a torch, was not commissioned. Both the khedive and Lessups declined the proposed statue from Bartholdi, citing the expensive cost.
In 1871, he 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. The idea, which had first been broached to him in 1865 by his friend Édouard René de Laboulaye, resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. After years of work and fundraising, the statue was inaugurated in 1886. During this period, Bartholdi also sculpted a number of monuments for American cities, such as a cast-iron fountain in Washington, DC completed in 1878.
In 1876, Bartholdi was one of the French commissioners in 1876 to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. There he exhibited bronze statues of The Young Vine-Grower, Génie Funèbre, Peace and Genius in the Grasp of Misery.
A prolific creator of statues, monuments, and portraits, Bartholdi exhibited at the Paris Salons until the year of his death in 1904. He also remained active with diverse mediums, including oil painting, watercolor, photography, and drawing.
Bartholdi was born to a family of German Protestant (Alsatian) heritage, with his family name Romanticized from Barthold. Bartholdi's father, a property owner and counselor to the prefecture, died when Bartholdi was two years old. Afterwards, Bartholdi moved to Paris, where another branch of their family resided. With the family often returning to spend long periods of time in Colmar, the family maintained ownership and visited their house in Alsace, which later became the Bartholdi Museum.
While in Colmar, Bartholdi took drawing lessons. In Paris, he studied sculpture and architecture Bartholdi attended the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris, and received a baccalaureat in 1852. He then went on to study architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts as well as painting under Ary Scheffer in his studio. Later, Bartholdi turned his attention to sculpture, which
In 1853, Bartholdi submitted a Good Samaritan-themed sculptural group to the Paris Salon of 1853. The statue was later recreated in bronze. Within two years of his Salon debut, Bartholdi was commissioned by his hometown of Colmar to sculpt a bronze memorial of Jean Rapp, a Napoleonic General.
In 1869, Bartholdi returned to Egypt to propose a new lighthouse to be built at the entrance of the Suez Canal, which was newly completed. The lighthouse, which was to be called Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia and shaped as a massive draped figure holding a torch, was not commissioned. Both the khedive and Lessups declined the proposed statue from Bartholdi, citing the expensive cost.
In 1871, he 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. The idea, which had first been broached to him in 1865 by his friend Édouard René de Laboulaye, resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. After years of work and fundraising, the statue was inaugurated in 1886. During this period, Bartholdi also sculpted a number of monuments for American cities, such as a cast-iron fountain in Washington, DC completed in 1878.
In 1876, Bartholdi was one of the French commissioners in 1876 to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. There he exhibited bronze statues of The Young Vine-Grower, Génie Funèbre, Peace and Genius in the Grasp of Misery.
A prolific creator of statues, monuments, and portraits, Bartholdi exhibited at the Paris Salons until the year of his death in 1904. He also remained active with diverse mediums, including oil painting, watercolor, photography, and drawing.
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| Mr Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi |
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| 1856, Monument of general Rapp |
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| 1857, Palais Longchamp water tower |
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| 1860, Statue of Martin Schongauer |
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| 1861, Four allegorical statues |
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| 1863-65, Allegory of Africa, conceived |
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| 1864, Statue of Joseph Bruat |
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| 1866, The funeral Engineering |
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| 1867, Statue of Arrighi de Casanova |
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| 1869, The Alsatian winegrower |
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| 1870, Statue of Vercingétorix |
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| 1872, Funerary monuments of the National Guard |
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| 1872, Tombstone Gustave Saltzmann |
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| 1873, Statue of Vauban |
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| 1875, Statue of Jean-François Champollion |
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| 1876, Statue of Lafayette |
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| 1878, Fountain of the Capitol |
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| 1879, Statue of Gribeauval |
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| 1880, Lion of Belfort |
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| 1882, Statue of Rouget de l'Isle, Lons-le-Saunier |
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| 1884, Statue of Diderot, Langres |
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| 1884, Museum of Fine Arts |
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| 1885,Bartholdi foutain, Reims |
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| The statue of Liberty, construction |
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| The statue of Liberty, construction |
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| The statue of Liberty, construction |
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| The statue of Liberty, construction |
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| 1886, The statue of Liberty, New York |
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| 1886, The statue of Liberty, New York |
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| 1888, Funerary monument Paul Bert, Auxerre |
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| 1888, Roesselmann fountain |
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| 1890, Funerary monument Jean-François Soitoux |
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| 1891, Statue of Gambetta |
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| 1892, Bartholdi fountain |
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| 1893, Colombus |
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| 1895 - Statues of Lafayette and Washington |
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| 1895 - Switzerland rescuing Strasbourg |
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| 1898 - Lazare of Schwendi fountain |
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| 1902 - Alsatian cooper |
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| 1902 - Great support of the World |
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| 1913 - Monument of the three seats |
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| Bartholdi Fountain in Washington, D.C. |
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| Statue Clermont Ferrand |
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| the Sancarlone in Arona, Italy |
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