Elin Wallin

Elin Kristina Wallin, born on December 29, 1884 in Gothenburg, died March 25, 1969 in , was a Swedish artist and drawer. She was the wife of the Swedish artist David Wallin (1876-1957).

Elin Wallin grew up in Ekersgatan 13 in Örebro. She was the daughter of the elementary school teacher Viktor Lundberg and his wife Anna Lundberg, born Kalling, Örebro, and sister to the famous damask weaver Carl Widlund and sister to Hilda Sofia (Hild) Zetterlind-Simonsen. She was the mother of the artist Bianca Wallin (1909-2006) and of the artist Sigurd Wallin (1916-1999).

When she had left the girls' school in Örebro Elin Wallin went to evening courses at the Technical school in Örebro in 1901-1902. In 1902 she passed the examination as a needlework mistress at Hulda Lundin's seminary in and after that she continued her studies in 1902-1904 at Althins målarskola. Caleb Althin was the founder of Althin's school of painting, a private art school on Grevgatan 26 in Östermalm in . For several decades the school played an important role, not least by preparing young artists for the Academy of Arts. And during the years 1902-1904 she studied in the evenings at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (in Swedish simply known as Konstfack) in . Konstfack, sometimes also called Tekniska skolan, was at that time in the block of Beridarebanan in Norrmalm, between Klara kyrka and Hötorget. During two periods, in 1905-1906 and 1910-1911, she studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. The school Académie Colarossi even accepted female students and allowed them to draw from the nude male model. Colarossi was as an alternative to the government-sanctioned École des Beaux Arts that had, in the eyes of many promising young artists at the time, become far too conservative. Together with her husband David Wallin she travelled for studies for longer or shorter time, to London in 1905, Paris 1905-1906 and 1910-1911, Italy 1908-1910, Germany 1905, 1906 and 1908, Denmark 1908.

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