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Alexandre Calame
Alexandre Calame

Alexandre Calame

Swiss, 1810-1864
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Alexandre Calame was a Swiss landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf School.

He was born in Arabie at the time belonging to Corsier-sur-Vevey, today a part of Vevey. He was the son of a skillful marble worker in Vevey, but because his father lost the family fortune, Calame could not concentrate on art, but rather he was forced to work in a bank from the age of 15. When his father fell from a building and then died, it was up to the young Calame to provide for his mother.

In his spare time he began to practice drawing small views of Switzerland. In 1829 he met his patron, the banker Diodati, who made it possible for him to study under landscape painter François Diday. After a few months he decided to devote himself fully to art.

In 1835 he began exhibiting his Swiss-Alps and forest paintings in Paris and Berlin. He became quite well known, especially in Germany, although Calame was more a drawer than an illustrator. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. In 1842 he went to Paris and displayed his works Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau, the Brienzersee, the Monte Rosa and Mont Cervin. He taught in Geneva, where Adolf Mosengel was one of his pupils.

He went to Italy in 1844 and brought back from Rome and Naples countless paintings, among them one of the ruins of Paestum (in the city museum in Leipzig). He showed that he was capable of understanding Italian nature; but the Alps remained his speciality.

The glaciers, emerald-green, white foaming mountain water, which split the trees during the storm, and the whipped clouds, the multi-colored rocks, half masked from fog, in the rays of the gleaming sun, are those things, which he knew to be true to nature. We still call them the Handeckfall from Bernese upper country, in Tirol, Lake Lucerne, the forest tower (in the urban museum of Leipzig), the forest stream (Dresdener gallery) etc.

One of his most ingenious works is the representation of the four seasons and times of the day in four landscapes, a spring morning in the south, a summer midday in the Nordic flatlands, an Autumn evening, and a winter night on a mountain. He became popular with these large works, and his popularity grew with smaller pieces and lithographies, namely 18 studies of Lauterbrunnen and Meiringen and the 24 sheets of Alpine passes. These were widespread in France, England, and Germany and are still today used to teach this style of painting.

Calame became a correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1850, he resigned the next year.

He died in Menton, France in 1864.

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Mountain scenery

Mountain scenery (1830-1847)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
Rosenlaui Alp

Rosenlaui Alp (1850–1855)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
Southern Mountain Landscape

Southern Mountain Landscape (1845–1850)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
The Rosenlaui Valley with the Wetterhorn

The Rosenlaui Valley with the Wetterhorn (1856)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
Vierwaldstätter See

Vierwaldstätter See (1852)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
Woody Landscape

Woody Landscape (1840–1845)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
Souvenir of Rosenlaui, Switzerland

Souvenir of Rosenlaui, Switzerland (1860)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
Alpine Stream

Alpine Stream (mid-1800s)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
Forêt de Sierre en Valais

Forêt de Sierre en Valais (1843)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
La Mer

La Mer (1851)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
Oeuvres de A. Calame; No. 52

Oeuvres de A. Calame; No. 52 (c. 1850–60)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
The Simplon Road, Meillerie, France

The Simplon Road, Meillerie, France (mid-1800s)

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810-1864)
Landscape
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