Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi , SCULPTER The Statue of Liberty
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi , SCULPTER The Statue of Liberty Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ( French: [fʁedeʁik oɡyst baʁtɔldi] ; 2 August 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor who is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World , commonly known as the Statue of Liberty . [1] The Statue of Liberty [ edit ] Main article: Statue of Liberty Front page of Frank Leslie 's Illustrated Newspaper , week ending June 13, 1885 The work for which Bartholdi is most famous is Liberty Enlightening the World , better known as the Statue of Liberty . Soon after the establishment of the French Third Republic , the project of building some suitable memorial to show the fraternal feeling existing between the republics of the United States and France was suggested, and in 1874 the Union Franco-Americaine (Franco-American Union) was established by Edouard de Laboulaye . [1] ...