Editing Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.jpg|thumb|Bartholdi in 1886 (painting by [[Jean Benner]])]]
Bartholdi was born in [[Colmar]], France, on 2 August 1834.<ref>{{cite web |title=Biographie |url=https://www.musee-bartholdi.fr/biographie |website=musee-bartholdi.fr |publisher=Musée Bartholdi, Colmar |access-date=23 November 2023}}</ref> He was born to a family of [[Alsace|Alsatian]] [[Protestant]] heritage, with his family name adopted from Barthold.<ref name="Bartholdi_NGA">{{cite web | url =http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artist-info.6761.html | title =Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste  | website =www.nga.gov | publisher =[[National Gallery of Art]] | access-date = 5 August 2016}}</ref> His parents were Jean Charles Bartholdi (1791–1836) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi ({{nee|Beysser}}; 1801–1891). Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who became a lawyer and editor.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}

Bartholdi's father, a property owner and counselor to the prefecture, died when Bartholdi was two years old.<ref name="Bartholdi_NGA" /> Afterwards, Bartholdi moved with his mother and his older brother Jean-Charles to [[Paris]], where another branch of their family resided.<ref name="Bartholdi_NGA" /> With the family often returning to spend long periods of time in Colmar,<ref name="Bartholdi_NGA" /> the family maintained ownership and visited their house in Alsace, which later became the Bartholdi Museum in 1922.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schenk|first=Peter|title=Mein Leben im Dreiland: Die Freiheitsstatue steht in Colmar {{!}} bz Basel|url=https://www.bzbasel.ch/basel/basel-stadt/die-freiheitsstatue-steht-in-colmar-ld.1545637|access-date=15 February 2021|website=bz - Zeitung für die Region Basel|date=30 March 2016 |language=de}}</ref> While in Colmar, Bartholdi took drawing lessons from Martin Rossbach. In Paris, he studied sculpture with [[Antoine Étex]]. He also studied architecture under [[Henri Labrouste]] and [[Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc]].<ref name="Bartholdi_NGA"/>

Bartholdi attended the [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]] in Paris and received a [[baccalauréat]] in 1852. He then went on to study architecture at the [[École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts]]{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} as well as painting under [[Ary Scheffer]]<ref name="Apletons_1900"/><ref name="Bartholdi_NGA"/> in his studio in the Rue Chaptal, now the [[Musée de la Vie Romantique]].{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} Later, Bartholdi turned his attention to sculpture, which afterward exclusively occupied him and his life.<ref name="Apletons_1900"/>