Alexandre calame biography
- Alexandre Calame was born in 1810 at Vevey in the Swiss canton of Vaud in 1810, the son of a marble carver.
- Alexandre Calame was a Swiss landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf School.
- Alexandre Calame (1810-1864) is one of the most important Swiss artists of the 19th century.
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Alexandre Calame
Pupil of Diday and first excursions in the Alps
Calame began by coloring prints for tourists and working as a clerk for a stockbroker. It was he who offered him lessons with François Diday (1802-1877), then the most important landscape painter on the Geneva scene.
Diday turned to the mountains after a trip to Italy: he was more impressed by the Alps than the landscapes of the Peninsula and decided to direct all his efforts to the mountains. With his students, he set out to search new subjects and new landscapes, going into unexplored regions. As a student of Diday, Calame quickly decided to become a landscape painter and began to travel the Alps every summer. One of his most important journeys was to the the BerneseOberland in 1838. Two years later, he produced his first version of the Wetterhorn from Rosenlaui, a view that had already become a classic at the time.
Painter of summits
Calame quickly earned his reputation as a painter of the Alps, thanks to View from the Handeck, near the Aare Falls, painted around 1835. The Handeck was al
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Alexandre Calame
Swiss painter (1810–1864)
Alexandre Calame (28 May 1810 – 19 March 1864) was a Swiss landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf School.
Biography
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 pai
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Landscape with Oaks, 1859
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1859 | oil on canvas
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River Study
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River Study, c.1846-50
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Alexandre Calame, Wetterhorn
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1840 | painting
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View of Lake Thuner, 1854
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View of Lake Thuner, 1854
1854 | oil on canvas
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The Sea
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