Carl Georg August Wallin

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 disappeared in the North Atlantic with men and everything in 1893, the same year he was born.

Wallin took his master mariner degree in 1914 and then he served shipping company Transmarin AB as an officer and commander.

Wallin's debut was in the early 1940s, when Broström Lines announced a competition for promotional picture of the school ship Albatross.

For Broström AB[2] 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.

But even foreign shipping companies, seafarers associations and federations as well as private buyers commissioned paintings.

In 1953 he traveled for study purposes to a lot of countries, he went to Germany, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Algeria, Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Italy.

Carl Wallin participated in the exhibition "Kulla-art" in Höganäs, including at the 10th anniversary celebration in 1950, and he has performed separately in Malmö and Höganäs museum in 1956, in Arild in Skåne County in 1964 and in a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sjöhistoriska museet in Stockholm,[9] in 1969.