Carl Fredrik Hill

Sigge Björcks Konsthandel, Stockholm; the collections of Engineer Carl Robert Lamm, Näsby castle, Uppland, Sweden (acquired from above mentioned art dealer on September 1 1915); Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, Sale 226, September 28-29 1920, lot 8 (under the title ”Kalkbrott”, reproduced, Pl. 3); the collections of Mr Albert Sahlin, Eslöv, Sweden; the collections of Mr. Bo Sahlin, Eslöv, Sweden (by descent); the collections of Mr. Jan Sahlin, Stockholm (by descent); subsequently by descent within the family; Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm, Sale 565, "Höstens Klassiska", December 2011, lot 60, Rolf Schmitz Collection.

Malmö Museum, Malmö, Sweden, "Carl Fredrik Hill -Retrospektiv utställning", 1933, no. 76 (owned by Industrialist Albert Sahlin, Eslöv); Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna (The Royal Academy of Arts), Stockholm, "Carl Hill -Minnesutställning", 1933, no. 75; Färg och Form, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911)", February 1943, no. 68 (owned by Managing director Bo Sahlin); Malmö Rådhus (Malmö Town Hall), Sweden, "Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911)", March 1943, no. 61 (owned by Managing director Bo Sahlin); Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill 1849-1911 -Minnesutställning", September - October 1949, no. 155a (owned by Mr. J. Sahlin, Stockholm); Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Nordisk Kunstforbunds utstilling "Carl Fredrik Hill 1849-1911", January 14 - February 12 1950, no. 18 (under the title "Kalkbrudd"); The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, "Carl Fredrik Hill 1849-1911", 1955, no. 2 (under the title "The Lime Quarry"); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Ein Schwedischer Maler 1849-1911", March - April 1955, no. 7 (under the title "Der Kalkbruch"), illustrated full page in the catalogue, p. 15; Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, "Carl Fredrik Hill 1849-1911", February 1956, no. 9; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Carl Fredrik Hill", October 1 1999 - 16 January 16 2000, no. 31 (illustrated in colour in the exhibition catalogue, p. 214).

"Konst i svenska hem", vol. II:8, listed and illustrated p. 395 under collection 645: "Mr Bo Sahlin, Skansen, Eslöv"; Viggo Loos, "Friluftsmåleriets genombrott i svensk konst 1860-1885", 1945, mentioned p. 219 and also on p. 340; Erik Blomberg, "Carl Fredrik Hill. Hans friska och sjuka konst", 1949, mentioned p. 46 and illustrated full page, plate 9;
Adolf Anderberg, "Carl Hill. Hans liv och hans konst", 1951, illustrated full page, Plate 57 and listed in the catalogue p. 307 (under the section/chapter "MONTIGNY OCH FONTAINEBLEAUTRAKTEN: Juni 1875 samt juli och september 1876").

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.