Early Years
He was born Carl Armin Hansen in San Francisco on October 23, 1886 and learned much from his father regarding portraiture and genre scenes of the old west. At the Mark Hopkins Institute he studied under Arthur Frank Mathews from 1903 to 1906. Moving to Germany, he became the student of Carlos Grethe at the Stuttgart Royal Academy and also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He also had exposure to the art centers at Paris, Amsterdam and Bruges. Wishing to see the world through marine eyes, he became a deck hand on a number of commercial vessels, one being a Norwegian steam fishing trawler.
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