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Gabriel Loppe

Gabriel Loppe (1825 - 1913) was active/lived in France, Switzerland.  Gabriel Loppe is known for High altitude mountain scene painting, Mont Blanc, alpine sketching, photography.

Gabriel Loppé (July 2, 1825 - May 19, 1913) was a French painter, photographer and mountaineer. He became the first foreigner to be made a member of the Alpine Club in London.

His father was a captain in the French Engineers and Loppé's childhood was spent in many different towns in south-eastern France. At age twenty-one Loppe climbed a small mountain in the Languedoc and found a group of painters sketching on the summit. He had found his calling and subsequently went off to Geneva where he met the reputed leading Swiss landscapist, Alexandre Calame (1810 -1864)

Loppé took up mountaineering in Grindelwald in the 1850s and made friends easily with the many English climbers in France and Switzerland. Although he was frequently labelled as a pupil of Calame and his rival Francois Diday, Loppé was almost an entirely self-taught artist.

He became the first painter to work at higher altitudes during climbing expeditions earning the right to be considered the founder   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2502 characters.]  Artist bio

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