Sigurd Wallin

Wallin followed the teaching at times at Edvin Ollers painting school (Edvind Ollers school of painting) in Stockholm 1940-1944. Edvin Ollers (1888-1959) was a designer, an artist and a qualified art teacher and had studied at the Konstindustriskolan in Stockholm. During the summer Edvin Ollers led a school of painting on the Swedish West Coast on the island Gullholmen in Bohuslän in Orust outside Lysekil, on the artists Gullholmen. Gullholmen was originally one of the oldest fishing villages in Sweden.

In the 1940s Wallin appeared in a few exhibitions including Swedish portrait art of today in Nationalmuseum (1943) and the Christmas Exhibition of Thurestam’s Salon at Klarabergsgatan 40 in Stockholm (1943). Wallin exhibited separately at Televerket in Norrköping (1947) and in Sveriges allmänna konstförening’s spring exhibition (Vårsalongen) in Liljevalchs konsthall in Stockholm (1948).

Sigurd Wallin grew up in Kungsholmen in Stockholm. In 1928, when Sigurd was about 12 years old the family moved to Östermalm in Stockholm. He graduated from Sigtunaskolan a Swedish boarding school located in Sigtuna, Sweden, in the spring of 1935. After that he practiced in the architect profession, among other places at the architect office of architect Albin Stark in Stockholm during the years 1937-1939.

After Åke Pernby’s studies in Paris, in progress since 1923, he began as a caretaker or superintendent at the Académie Scandinave in Paris. There he became friend with Otte Sköld who ran the school of painting. The two friends planned to break up from Paris. They agreed that whoever first came back to Sweden would locate a suitable studio to start a school of painting. The year was 1929 and then the 27-year-old Åke Pernby was first home. It was the beginning of Otte Skölds målarskola (Otte Sköld school of painting). High over the ridge in an old mansion in the penthouse at Snickarbacken 7 in Stockholm he found just the "Parisian" environment he sought. Twenty years later, in 1949, the management was overtaken of Åke Pernby and the name was changed to the present, Pernbys målarskola (Pernby school of painting). When Otte Sköld became head of Nationalmuseum in 1949, Åke Pernby continued to run the school in his own name, during the years 1949-1976. Otte Sköld was also a professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1938-1942, and director of the department in 1941-1950. Otte Sköld was then curator of Nationalmuseum in 1950-1958.

David Sigurd Wallin (June 10, 1916 in Nora rural parish in Örebro County, Sweden – May 8, 1999 in Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish artist. He grew up in Stockholm.

Sigurd Wallin painted from models at Otte Skölds målarskola (Otte Sköld school of painting) in Stockholm. When Otte Sköld (1894-1958) returned to Sweden from Paris in 1929 he founded Otte Sköld school of painting together with Åke Pernby (1901-1981). In the 1940s Otte Sköld Studio, as it was known in a prospectus, was situated in Snickarbacken 7 in Stockholm. Otte Sköld, who was a Swedish artist, draftsman and printmaker, had a central place in Stockholm’s cultural life during the 1940s and 1950s. He pursued art education during much of his life. In Paris in the 1920s he ran together with Danish and Norvegian colleagues Académie Scandinave. The school was arranged as a pure art school after the classic pattern by teaching daytime and evening. The school functioned as a "nursery" for further study at the art academy and quickly gained a good reputation. Along with Isaac Grünewalds målarskola (Isaac Grünewald school of painting) it could offer the most significant basic education for its time.

Sigurd Wallin was the son of the Swedish artist David Wallin (1876–1957) and his wife Elin Wallin (1884–1969; born in Lundberg, Stockholm). He was the brother of the artist Bianca Wallin (1909–2006). His uncle was the Swedish-American artist Carl E. Wallin (1879–1968). In 1945 he married Margit, born Ruuth; the couple settled down in Stockholm, Sweden, and had two daughters.

He was also interested in archaeology and he participated in the excavations in the vicinity of Alvastra, Alvastra Abbey and the settlement of Alvastra. Alvastra is a small village, next to Omberg, near Ödeshög in Östergötland in eastern Sweden. It is known for being the seat of the Cistercian Alvastra Abbey in the Middle Ages. In the 1530s the monastery was demolished and it was never rebuilt. The preparation was done by students in art history and in archaeology and also by workers under the led by Otto Frödin (1881-1953), or some other experienced archaeologist. The Alvastra monastery ruin is today well preserved and a popular place to visit. However Wallins interest in art, which he had received in his parents’ home, led him to begin to draw and to paint portraits.