![Calame’s feel for Alpine nature influenced many 19th century artists. This painting of the region surrounding Lake Lucerne dates back to 1852.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-calame-300x225.jpg)
Calame’s awe-inspiring Alpine views
Alexandre Calame is considered one of the fathers of Alpine landscape painting. And it all started, figuratively speaking, with a storm.
![Storm at Handeck, painting by Alexandre Calame, 1839.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/calame-gewitter-300x222.jpg)
![A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, painting by Albert Bierstadt, 1866.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/bierstadt-rocky-mountains-300x174.jpg)
![Geertgen tot Sint Jans's small homage to the Alps can be seen in the background on the left. The picture was painted between 1475 and 1480.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/lazarus-1-225x300.jpg)
![The mountains as a backdrop. Konrad Witz’s work The Miraculous Draft of Fishes with Mont Blanc in the background, 1444.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/witz-bild-300x266.jpg)
![Portrait of Alexandre Calame, circa 1850.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/calame-218x300.jpg)
![Portrait photo of a painter: François Diday, taken in 1868.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/diday-228x300.jpg)
![You have to look closely to appreciate Calame’s sophisticated view of reality.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/Gewitter-Ausschnitt-1-300x169.jpg)
![Turner’s depiction of an avalanche in the Grisons, circa 1810.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/turner-lawine-300x222.jpg)
![A mountain climber on the Mont Blanc glacier. Stereoscopic images, circa 1860.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/foto-gletscher-300x149.jpg)
Alexandre Calame is considered one of the fathers of Alpine landscape painting. And it all started, figuratively speaking, with a storm.