David Wallin is best known for his oil paintings with genre motifs and idealized images of nude women in atmospheric landscapes, where he stressed the affinity of human and nature.
36 Facts About David Wallin
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David Wallin painted tender depictions of mother and child, and a series of portraits of famous Swedes and genres as figures, landscapes and nudes, still lifes and religious images.
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David Wallin is represented in a large number of museums.
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David Wallin was the brother of the Swedish-American artist Carl E Wallin, and he was the father of the Swedish artist Bianca Wallin and the artist Sigurd Wallin.
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David Wallin grew up on a farm, Varby, in Ostra Husby parish, a locality on Vikbolandet, which had been in the family since the 17th century.
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David Wallin's parents were the carpenter Alexander Wallin and his wife Inga Helena Larsdotter.
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David Wallin grew up in a large household with many siblings, a sister and four brothers.
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David Wallin dreamt early of a career as an artist, his first artistic experience was an altarpiece by the artist Pehr Horberg in Ostra Husby church.
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In 1898 David Wallin was admitted at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where his fellow students included Karl Isakson, Ivar Arosenius and John Bauer.
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In 1902 David Wallin received the Academy's Ducal Prize for his oil painting "Kraka" and in 1904 he was awarded the Royal Medal for Portrait Painting.
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David Wallin caught the attention of the old king Ragnar Lodbrok thanks to her immense beauty.
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David Wallin is the daughter of Sigurd and Brynhild Fafnesbane, wife of Ragnar Lodbrok.
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David Wallin was engaged in springtime 1905 and in September the same year he married his fellow artist Elin Wallin, born Lundberg.
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David Wallin was the movement's inspirational teacher, and he did much for the era.
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David Wallin was a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he pushed his students to think outside of the lines of formality and to follow their visions.
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In London David Wallin studied the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and other groups, including James McNeill Whistler, who was an American-born, British-based artist.
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In 1908, David Wallin was awarded an Academy travel fellowship from the Academy's special fund, which was later extended for another year.
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David Wallin spent two summers at the Scandinavian Artists' colony at Volterra in Tuscany, where he returned to a genre that he had embarked on at home, it was that of nudes in a landscape.
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In springtime in 1912 Wallin and his wife Elin were the parents of four children, four girls born in 1906,1907,1909 and 1912, so it was natural that David's motifs often were the mother-child theme.
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David Wallin was first introduced to modern contemporary painting in Paris, where he visited Andre Lhote and Kees van Dongen.
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David Wallin studied modern works at the Gertrude Stein's modern art gallery in Paris.
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David Wallin's palette is ascetic and suggests the influence of Puvis de Chavannes.
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David Wallin had copied details taken from Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin.
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David Wallin worked on the mother-child theme: portraits of young girls, children, and nudes.
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David Wallin exhibited at the Association of Swedish Artists' exhibition in Stockholm in 1917 in Liljevalchs konsthall in Stockholm, which was built in 1916.
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David Wallin has an emotional world of his own which focuses with special intensity on the mother-child theme.
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David Wallin's preference for running water reminds us that in his youth he was an ardent admirer of Ernst Josephson.
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David Wallin has exhibited in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Rome, Venice, Copenhagen, Budapest, Reval, Riga, Turku, Helsinki, Buenos Aires and in several US cities, in Stockholm at Liljevalchs, Baltic Exhibition in Malmo in 1914, solo exhibition in "Nordic Art" at Gothenburg Jubilee Exhibition in 1923 and solo exhibition at Konstakademien in 1926.
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David Wallin painted "In the Summertime", and "At the Seaside of Arild".
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David Wallin won the Olympic Gold Medal in painting in Los Angeles, California, United States, in the 1932 Summer Olympics in the United States of America.
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David Wallin won an Olympic Gold Medal in the Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics in painting of the Olympic Games for his oil painting "At the Seaside of Arild".
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The sketches of David Wallin, which are interesting from a painterly point of view and often exquisite, are part of his long and tireless career as an artist.
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David Wallin never ceased stressing the gap that existed between his own ideals and much of what broke through in today's art.
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David Wallin had about ten solo exhibitions in Sweden from 1926 to 1953 and about ten Swedish Group Shows in Sweden from 1905 to 1941 and numerous exhibitions sponsored by the Ostergotland Art Association in various places in Ostergotland.
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David Wallin had about twentyfive exhibitions abroad from 1906 to 1936.
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David Wallin was a member of Swedish Artists' Association, The Artists' Club in Stockholm and Union Internationale des Beaux-Arts et des Lettres in Paris.