Carl Fredrik Hill

The artist’s family; the collections of managing director Albert Sahlin, Villa Skansen, Eslöv, Sweden; the collections of managing director Bo Sahlin, Villa Skansen, Eslöv, Sweden; Miss M. and Mr. J. Sahlin, Stockholm; by descent.

Malmö Museum, Sweden, ”Carl Fredrik Hill. Retrospektiv utställning”, 1933, no. 100 (” ’Landskap’. 1877. Tillhör fabrikör A. Sahlin, Eslöv”); Färg och Form, Stockholm, ”Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911)”, February 1943, no. 80 (” ’Landskap’. Tillhör Dr Bo Sahlin”); Föreningen Malmö Konsthall, Malmö Rådhus, Sweden, ”Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911)”, March 1943, no. 69a (” ’Landskap, Bois-le-Roi’. Tillhör Dr Bo Sahlin”); Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, ”Carl Fredrik Hill. 1849-1911”, September – October 1949, no. 145 (” ’Landskap med fruktträd’ Fröken M. och herr J. Sahlin, Stockholm”); Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill", 1 October 1999 - 16 January 2000, no. 60.

Konst i svenska hem, vol. II, N:o 8, probably listed (under the title ”Franskt landskap”) p. 396 under collection 645: ”Direktör Bo Sahlin, Skansen, Eslöv”; Viggo Loos, ”Friluftsmåleriets genombrott i svensk konst 1860-1885”, 1945, mentioned p. 226, illustrated p. 225 and listed in the catalogue, p. 341 (under the title ”Landskap”); Gunnar Ekelöf, ”C.F. Hill”, 1946, illustrated full page (nr. 16 under the title ”Landskap”); Adolf Anderberg, ”Carl Hill. Hans liv och hans konst”, 1951, listed in the catalogue (under ”BOIS-LE-ROI: April och första sommarmånaderna 1877”), p. 309 and illustrated full page Pl. 86; (Ed.) Karin Sidén, "Carl Fredrik Hill", exhibition catalogue, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1999, illustrated in colour p. 52 and listed in the catalogue p. 214, no. 60.

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.