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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi 1875 (Photographer)

Photographer Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (2 August 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for designing commonly known as the Statue of Liberty.

Bartholdi's father , died when Bartholdi was two years old , Afterwards, moved with his mother and his older brother Jean-Charles to Paris.

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 in 1922.

While in Colmar, Bartholdi took drawing lessons from Martin Rossbach. In Paris, he studied sculpture with Antoine Étex. He also studied architecture under Henri Labrouste and Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.

In 1855 and 1856, Bartholdi traveled in Yemen and Egypt with travel companions such as Jean-Léon Gérôme and other "orientalist" painters. The trip sparked Bartholdi's interest in colossal sculpture.

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 de Lesseps declined the proposed statue from Bartholdi, citing the high cost ( Statue of Liberty Now ) and The Port Said Lighthouse was built instead, by François Coignet in 1869.