Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi Born: 2-Aug-1834 Birthplace: Colmar, Alsace, France Died: 4-Oct-1904 Location of death: Paris, France Cause of death: Tuberculosis Remains: Buried, Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, France
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Sculptor Nationality: France Executive summary: Statue of Liberty Military service: French Army (Franco-Prussian War) Father: Jean Charles Bartholdi (b. 1791, d. 1836) Mother: Augusta Charlotte Beysser (b. 1801, d. 1891) Brother: Jean-Charles Wife: Jeanne-Emilie Baheux Puysieux (m. 15-Dec-1875)
High School: Lycee Louis-le-Grand (1852) Conservatory: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Freemasonry 1875 French Legion of Honor 1886
Selected statuary:
Marquis de Lafayette, Manhattan (1876) Bartholdi Fountain, Washington, DC (1878) The Lion of Belfort (1880) Statue of Liberty (1886) Fontaine Bartholdi, Lyon, France (1892) Lafayette and Washington Monument, Paris (1895)
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