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Arthur Calame BIOGRAPHY
1843 - 1919 Geneva. Known for: Painting.
Jean Baptiste Arthur Calame, son of Alexandre Calame, received his first artistic training from his father in 1860. After Alexandre Calame’s death in 1864, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he attended... Read full biography
Jean Baptiste Arthur Calame, son of Alexandre Calame, received his first artistic training from his father in 1860. After Alexandre Calame’s death in 1864, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he attended Oswald Achenbach’s landscape painting classes at the Royal Academy of Art and joined the Malkasten... Read full biography
Jean Baptiste Arthur Calame, son of Alexandre Calame, received his first artistic training from his father in 1860. After Alexandre Calame’s death in 1864, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he attended Oswald Achenbach’s landscape painting classes at the Royal Academy of Art and joined the Malkasten artists’ association. His oeuvre comprises landscapes, vedute, and marine subjects, inspired by extensive travels through Switzerland, Italy, and France. Italian motifs in particular left a lasting... Read full biography
Jean Baptiste Arthur Calame, son of Alexandre Calame, received his first artistic training from his father in 1860. After Alexandre Calame’s death in 1864, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he attended Oswald Achenbach’s landscape painting classes at the Royal Academy of Art and joined the Malkasten artists’ association. His oeuvre comprises landscapes, vedute, and marine subjects, inspired by extensive travels through Switzerland, Italy, and France. Italian motifs in particular left a lasting imprint on his work. In addition to painting, he was active as an illustrator.... Read full biography
Jean Baptiste Arthur Calame, son of Alexandre Calame, received his first artistic training from his father in 1860. After Alexandre Calame’s death in 1864, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he attended Oswald Achenbach’s landscape painting classes at the Royal Academy of Art and joined the Malkasten artists’ association. His oeuvre comprises landscapes, vedute, and marine subjects, inspired by extensive travels through Switzerland, Italy, and France. Italian motifs in particular left a lasting imprint on his work. In addition to painting, he was active as an illustrator.... Read full biography
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Jean Baptist Arthur Calame
Biography from Dobiaschofsky Auktionen
Jean Baptiste Arthur Calame, son of Alexandre Calame, received his first artistic training from his father in 1860. After Alexandre Calame’s death in 1864, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he attended Oswald Achenbach’s landscape painting classes at the Royal Academy of Art and joined the Malkasten artists’ association. His oeuvre comprises landscapes, vedute, and marine subjects, inspired by extensive travels through Switzerland, Italy, and France. Italian motifs in particular left a lasting imprint on his work. In addition to painting, he was active as an illustrator.
Biography from Dobiaschofsky Auktionen
Jean Baptiste Arthur Calame was born in 1843. He is the son of Alexandre Calame.
Between 1860 and 1864, Calame learned the art of painting. Afterwards, he attended the Royal Art Academy in Dusseldorf, and took courses from Oswald Achenbach until 1867.
He preferred to depict the Italian landscape in a kind of Achenbach manner. His works have been represented at numerous exhibitions in Switzerland, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Dijon and Munich.