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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi

1834 - 1904

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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ( bar-T(H)OL-dee, French: [fʁedeʁik oɡyst baʁtɔldi]; 2 August 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi is the 12th most popular sculptor (up from 13th in 2019), the 404th most popular biography from France (down from 374th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Sculptor.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi is most famous for designing the Statue of Liberty, which was a gift from France to the United States.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ranks 12 out of 258. Before him are Polykleitos, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Antonio Canova, Lysippos, Alberto Giacometti, and Constantin Brâncuși. After him are Louise Bourgeois, Giambologna, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Myron, Scopas, and Józef Gosławski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ranks 8. Before him are Edgar Degas, Gottlieb Daimler, Ernst Haeckel, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Venn, and Duchess Helene in Bavaria. After him are William Morris, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Léon Walras, Carl Bloch, August Weismann, and Amilcare Ponchielli. Among people deceased in 1904, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ranks 8. Before him are Antonín Dvořák, Theodor Herzl, Jamsetji Tata, Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, and Niels Ryberg Finsen. After him are Friedrich Ratzel, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, Eadweard Muybridge, Gabriel Tarde, and Henri Fantin-Latour.

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In France

Among people born in France, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ranks 404 out of 6,770. Before him are Odilon Redon (1840), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Louis IV of France (920), Gustave Moreau (1826), Jules Rimet (1873), and Albert Fert (1938). After him are Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Patrice de MacMahon (1808), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), and Jean Dubuffet (1901).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ranks 3. Before him are Auguste Rodin (1840), and Camille Claudel (1864). After him are Louise Bourgeois (1911), Giambologna (1529), Marie Tussaud (1761), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Paul Landowski (1875), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), François Rude (1784), and Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716).

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