Carl Fredrik Hill

Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, December 1935; Collection Thorsten Laurin, villa Ekarne, Djurgården, Stockholm (acquired at the auction above for SEK 860); private collection; Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, Sale 571, "Höstens Klassiska", December 4-7 2012, lot 126; Rolf Schmitz Collection.

Liljevalchs Konsthall (Liljevalchs Public Art Gallery), Stockholm, "Friluftsmåleriets genombrott i svensk konst 1860-1885", 1944, no. 252; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill 1849-1911. Minnesutställning", September - October 1949, no. 152; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, "Carl Fredrik Hill - Utställning av målningar och teckningar", April 10 - June 7 1976, no. 42.

Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden, December 4 1935, catalogue 47, illustrated half page, plate VII; Ragnar Hoppe, "Katalog över Thorsten Laurins samling av Måleri och Skulptur", 1936, catalogued p. 32-33, no. 69 (under the title "Landskap från Bois le Roi, Fontainebleau") and illustrated full page (Pl. 44); Viggo Loos, "Friluftsmåleriets genombrott i svensk konst 1860-1885", SAK, 1945, mentioned p. 227 and catalogued p. 341; "Konst i svenska hem", vol. II, no. 4, catalogued and illustrated p. 170 ("Landskap, Bois le Roi, Fontainebleau") under Collection 233: "Direktör Thorsten Laurin, Ekarne, Djurgården, Stockholm"; Erik Blomberg, 'Två världar. Hill i Nationalmuseum', article in "Konstrevy", no. 5, 1949, illustrated p. 254; Adolf Anderberg, "Carl Hill. Hans liv och hans konst", 1951, illustrated full page, Pl. 85 and listed in the catalogue p. 309 (under the section/chapter "BOIS-LE-ROI: April och första sommarmånaderna 1877", there titled "Landskap med träd och bondgård") .

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.