Bartholdi is especially renowned for the Statue of Liberty

Colmar (France) - 175 years ago, on April 2, 1834, the sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi was born in Colmar, France, who is best known for the Statue of Liberty, located on one of the islands at the entrance to New York Harbor. In addition, Bartholdi became renowned as the author of several gigantic monuments in the academic style.
    The statue of a young woman, more than 40 meters high, holding a torch in her right hand, illuminating the world, was created by Bartholdi with the help of the designer of one of Paris's landmarks, Gustave Eiffel. Bartholdi had already designed a similar statue for the Suez Canal, but Egypt did not accept his idea. In July 1884, one of the most famous statues was officially presented in Paris to the American ambassador as a gift from the French nation and then it awaited its journey by ship across the Atlantic. This colossal statue, weighing 225 tons, was transported disassembled into individual parts to the United States. The Statue of Liberty illuminating the world, as its official title goes, was ceremonially unveiled in October 1886 in the presence of its creator. Bartholdi even patented the design of the monument.
    Among Bartholdi's other well-known works are the massive lion statue near Belfort in France and the fountains in Lyon and in Washington's Bartholdi Park. Bartholdi died on October 4, 1904.