Kristian Whlin's  has referenced Romantic painters like Caspar David Friedrich when he was studying music and his  interest in art began while attending Schillerska Grammar School.
He has referenced Romantic and Renaissance painters like Caspar David Friedrich, Albrecht Durer and Hieronymus Bosch as early influences. Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774  7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. This interest also coincided with the time in which he studied music. WAhlin's interest in art began while attending Schillerska Grammar School, a secondary educational institution in central Gothenburg. 
