Carl Fredrik Hill

Mrs. Marie Louise Klason (née Hill, the artist's sister), Stockholm; by descent within the family.

Malmö Museum, Sweden, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Retrospektiv utställning", 1933, no. 54 (under the title "Stenlandskap med vit hund"); Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill 1849-1911", September - October 1949, no. 108 (under the title "Väg med sittande hund"); Liljevalchs Konsthall (Liljevalchs Public Art Gallery), Stockholm, "C F Hill. 'Det sannas hjärta' ", September 18 - November 1, 1987, no. 24 (under the title "Stenbacke med sittande hund"); Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill", October 1, 1999 - January 16, 2000, no. 21; Blaafarvevaerket, Åmot, Norway, "Kong Jeg", May 18 - September 22, 2002; Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill", September 17, 2011 - January 29, 2012; Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Denmark, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Sveriges store landskabsmaler", October 4, 2015 - January 31, 2016 (under the title "Vej med siddende hund, Fontainebleau").

Adolf Anderberg, "Carl Hill. Hans liv och hans konst", 1951, listed in the catalogue (under "Montigny och Fontainebleautrakten: Juni 1875 samt juli och september 1876") p. 306-307, mentioned p. 226-227 and illustrated full page plate 51 (under the title "Väg med sittande hund"); Viggo Loos, "Friluftsmåleriets genombrott i svensk konst 1860-1885", SAK, 1945, mentioned p. 218 and listed in the catalogue (under the title "Stenlandskap med vit hund") p. 340; (Ed.) Karin Sidén, "Carl Fredrik Hill", exhibition catalogue N:o 615, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1999, illustrated full page in colour, p. 37 and listed in the catalogue, p. 213, no. 21; Sten Åke Nilsson, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Maximus Pictor", 2011, mentioned p. 38 and illustrated full page in colour, p. 105; (Ed.) Birgitte von Folsach and Sten Åke Nilsson, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Sveriges store landskabsmaler", 2015, listed in the catalogue p. 209, no. 44 and illustrated full page in colour, p. 44 (under the title "Vej med siddende hund, Fontainebleau").

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.