Carl Fredrik Hill

The collection of Managing director Hugo Sjöberg, Malmö, Sweden; Beijers Auktioner, Stockholm, Sale 14, "Beijers Klassiska Höstauktion", November 19 1986, lot 64; private collection (acquired at the above mentioned sale).

Malmö Museum, Sweden, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Retrospektiv utställning", 1933, no. 40 (under the title "Skogsinteriör. Fontainebleau"); Galleri Färg och Form, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911)", February 1943, no. 35; Föreningen Malmö Konsthall, Malmö rådhus (Malmö City Hall), Sweden, "Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911)", March 1943, no. 29; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill 1849-1911", September - October 1949, no. 34; Malmö Konsthall, "Carl Fredrik Hill", April 10 - June 7 1976, no. 10.

Adolf Anderberg, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Hans liv och hans verk. Del I", 1926, illustrated p. 63; "Konst i svenska hem", vol. 4, listed p. 202 under collection 288: "Direktör Hugo Sjöberg, Erikslustvägen 15, Malmö"( under the title "Skogsbäcken"); Viggo Loos, "Friluftsmåleriets genombrott i svensk konst 1860-1885", 1945, mentioned p. 212-213 and listed in the catalogue under "Kap. IX Carl Fredrik Hill", p. 340; Adolf Anderberg, "Carl Hill. Hans liv och hans konst", 1951, listed in the catalogue under "Franska motiv. I Barbizon och Fontainebleau: Sommaren och hösten 1874 samt april månad 1875", p. 305, mentioned p. 202 and illustrated full page, Pl. 32.

Carl Fredrik Hill was a Swedish artist born in Lund. Hill is considered one of Sweden's formost landscape painters. His fate and artistry are perhaps the strangest but most interesting in Swedish art history. Born in an academic home in Lund, despite his father's protests, he managed to begin studies at the Art Academy in Stockholm and then traveled to France, where he came in contact with Corot's landscape painting. He found his inspiration in Barbizon and later on the River Oise, in Luc-sur-Mer and Bois-le-Roi. He painted frantically with the hope of being accepted into the Salon de Paris. Already during his student years, he struggled with an incipient mental illness and at the age of 28 he was taken to the mental hospital in Passy. During the hospital stay he began his rich production of drawings and then continued with the production after his return to Lund, where he was cared for by his family for the rest of his life. In thousands drawings, a fantasy world of figures scenes appears. Today, Hill's river landscape and flowering fruit trees from the years in France, together with the visionary drawings from the period of illness in Lund, have received great recognition. His art depicts a loneliness and longing that is easy to get caught up in. He is mainly represented at the Malmö Museum and at the National Museum in Stockholm.