Alexandre Calame

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