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(b. Colmar, Alsace 1834, d.
1904)
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was a French
sculptor who originally studied painting under Ari Scheffer. his major
scupltures include "Switzerland Succoring Strabourg", at Basel,
Switzerland, statues at Colmar, at Clermont-Ferrand, at Belfort, in Paris,
and at Union Square in New York. He is said to have been a Freemason.
The face of the Statue of Liberty is said to be that of his mother.
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