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  1. 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.

  2. Learn about the Swiss painter Alexandre Calame, who lost an eye and painted Alpine landscapes. See his works at the National Gallery, such as At Handeck and The Lake of Thun.

  3. Biography. Alexandre Calame was born in 1810 at Vevey in the Swiss canton of Vaud in 1810, the son of a marble carver. In 1813 the family moved to Neuchâtel, then under Prussian government, where Calame spent his boyhood, marred by an accident in 1820 that cost him the sight of one eye.

  4. Mar 9, 2023 · Painter Alexandre Calame (1810–64) attracted widespread admiration when he presented his work Storm at Handeck for the first time in Geneva in 1839. Most of his contemporaries only knew the mountains from afar.

  5. Learn about the life and work of Alexandre Calame, the greatest 19th century painter of Swiss mountains. Discover his romantic and realistic landscapes of the Alps and Lake Geneva, and his influence on other artists.

  6. A painting by Alexandre Calame, a Swiss landscape painter, depicting a mountain village in the Alps. Learn about the key facts, download the image, or buy a print of this artwork from the National Gallery website.

  7. Alexandre Calame Ruin of an Amphitheatre at Pouzzoles (Kingdom of Naples), plate 9 from Oeuvres de A. Calame, 1851 Staircase in the Park of Villa Chigi di Ariccia, 1844/1845