Arthur Calame
Jean Baptiste Arthur Calame (born October 8, 1843 in Geneva ; † February 24, 1919 there ) was a Swiss landscape , vedute and marine painter and illustrator from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Calame was a son of the landscape painter Alexandre Calame and his wife Amélie, a daughter of the Geneva painter and music teacher Jean-Baptiste Müntzberger (1794-1878), who had studied with Franz Liszt and taught music herself. From 1860 until his death in 1864 he was an apprentice to his father, whom he also accompanied on trips. He then traveled to Düsseldorf , like his father did 26 years earlier . At the Düsseldorf Art Academy he was influenced by the landscape painter Oswald Achenbach , who taught him in his landscape class from 1864 to 1866. From 1866 to 1868 Calame was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . On May 7, 1867, he married Jeanne Victoria Laure Snell (* 1841). Calame made numerous trips to Switzerland, France and Italy. He was the teacher of the landscape painter Eugène Etienne Sordet (1836–1915).
Works (selection)
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- Ile Saint-Honorat , 1866
- Sunset on the rocky coast of Le Coisic in Brittany , 1882
- Sunset on Bordighera , 1883
- At the Pilasti Arcitani in front of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice , 1896
- Illustrations for Le sapins de France , E. Meuriot, Paris 1897
- Lake Lucerne with a view of the Urirotstock , 1900
- Birch forest , 1900
- Italian coastal village
- Coastal landscape
- Ventimiglia dunes
literature
- Robert Corwegh : Calame, (Jean-Baptiste-) Arthur . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 369-370 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Gründ, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7000-0149-4 , Volume II, p. 452.
Web links
- Arthur Calame , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Jean-Baptiste-Arthur Calame , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146.
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 428.
- ^ Jean Baptiste "Arthur" Calame-Rosset , genealogical data sheet in the portal gw.geneanet.org , accessed on June 17, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Calame, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Calame, Jean Baptiste Arthur (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape painter, vedute painter and marine painter as well as illustrator of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1919 |
| Place of death | Geneva |