Carl Georg August Wallin

Carl Georg August Wallin (February 2, 1893 in Svanshall, Jonstorp, Skåne County, Sweden – July 28, 1978 in Svanshall) was a Swedish marine painter, master mariner and visual artist. Most often he has painted mariners and coastal landscapes.

Carl Wallin was born in Svanshall, a little fishing village in the western Skälderviken in Malmöhus County in northwest of Skåne County, about 25 kilometers north of Helsingborg, the nearest village to the south is Jonstorp. He grew up in an old seamen’s family, his father was the sea captain Jöns Andersson and his mother was Annette Wallin. His father was captain in the barque Netten, which was disappeared in the North Atlantic with men and everything in 1893, the same year he was born. In 1904, when he was 11 years old, his mother died too. He grew up with his grandmother. In 1925 he married Anna Greta Ingeborg Jönsson.

As soon as he had left school he went to sea. Wallin took his master mariner degree in 1914 and then he served shipping company Transmarin AB as an officer and commander. He got an interest to start painting in 1935. He was inspired by a steward on board the boat, which he commanded, and who painted landscapes as a hobby. He bought a box of colors and a piece of canvas by the meter and started painting.

In 1940 he left sea in order to devote his time to marine painting. Now he was marin painter full time. As a painter he was self-taught. His ambition was to render any ship technically correct and its movements in the sea and the rhythm of the waves. On the stretched canvas he sketched the ship and the rhythm of the waves with charcoal and chalk. Then he made a painting in brown and ochre.

Wallin’s debut was in the early 1940s, when Broström Lines announced a competition for promotional picture of the school ship Albatross. He emerged as the winner in the contest in which the curator at Sjöhistoriska Museet, Gerhard Albe, was in the jury. His breakthrough came in an exhibition in Göteborgs Handelstidning’s premises in connection with the Albatross boat launch. The orders poured in from around the country. For Broström AB he made many oil paintings, about 50 pieces, some of which were reproduced by the shipping company and were delivered to the agents and employees. Shipping Company Nordstjernan AB ordered some 30 paintings by Wallin.

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