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Alexandre Calame (b. May 28 , 1810 in Arabie, Gemeinde Corsier-sur-Vevey, today a part of Vevey ; d. March 19 , 1864 in Menton ) was a Swiss Painter . 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 begain 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. In 1842 he went to Paris and displayed his works '' Mont Blanc '', the '' Jungfrau '', the '' Brienzersee '', the '' Monte Rosa '' and '' Mont Cervin ''. 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 his specialty remained the Alps. 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 work 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. SELECTED WORKS
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