Alexandre Calame
(1810–1864) schweizisk målare
Alexandre Calame (Switzerland, 1810–1864) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Alexandre Calame belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Alexandre Calame was born in Vevey and died in Menton. Alexandre Calame trained at François Diday. Alexandre Calame became a member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The students included Arthur Calame, Mikhail Spiridonovich Erassi, Eugène Castelnau, and Adolphe Potter.
The best-known works include ‘Landscape’, ‘Mountain Landscape’, and ‘Lac des Quatre Cantons’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 39 works by Alexandre Calame with free images. The dated works span the years 1830–1861. Works by Alexandre Calame are held by several collections, among them National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Munich Central Collecting Point, and Mauerbach collection.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include August von Bayer, Charles Gleyre, Karl Bodmer, Alfred Dedreux, and Alfred Jacob Miller.