A Fountain in Colmar
by W Chris Fooshee
Title
A Fountain in Colmar
Artist
W Chris Fooshee
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Fontaine Schwendi sculpted by Auguste Bartholdi is in the center near the Old Custom House. It is topped with the statue of Lord Schwendi carrying a vine.
Nestled among the vineyards of the Alsace region, the capital of the Alsace wine region, Colmar, is certainly the French Alsace's most beautiful city. It is a town founded in the 9th century, and yet still retains stunning medieval architecture and even its own “Little Venice”. Half-timbered, pastel-colored houses crowd narrow cobblestone lanes that criss-cross canals over flower-lined bridges. Though it was the last town in France to be liberated in WWII, it is now the capital of Alsatian wine.
The French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, (1834-1904) was born in Colmar. Of course, he is best known as creator of La Liberté éclairant le monde (Liberty Enlightening the World), or as we know it, the Statue of Liberty, as well as many other monumental sculptures in both France and the US.
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