Who built the statue of liberty

French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi () created the Statue of Liberty, the immense torch-wielding figure that rises out of New York Harbor as a welcoming beacon to the world.

The Statue of Liberty was designed as an expression of friendship and shared values between France and the United States, the work was planned as a gift from the French people to America on the one hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, but not erected in the harbor until a dozen years later.

“It is a consolation to know that this statue will exist thousands of years from now, long after our names shall have been forgotten,” Bartholdi asserted on that day in , according to Claudia Glenn Dowling in Life.

Bartholdi was born on August 2, , in Colmar, Alsace, near France's southern border with Germany.

His father, Jean-Charles Bartholdi, held a prominent position as counsellor to the prefecture of Colmar, but died when Bartholdi was two. A keen artist fro