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| Carl Fredrik Hill The Lime Quarry ca. 1876 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Gravel Slope 1876 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Gravel Pit with Wheel Tracks ca. 1876 oil on paper private collection |
"Carl Fredrik Hill's work has exercised a crucial impact on modern 20th-century art. Born the son of a mathematics professor, Hill grew up in the narrowness of the university town of Lund in southern Sweden and had to strike out his career as a landscape painter against his father's resistance. After studying at the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts he went to France, where he became one of the most original Swedish landscape painters of his time. Both the Barbizon School and Corot had a decisive influence on him. Yet Hill's endeavors were not crowned with official success; due to their radical tenor, his works were rejected when he presented them at the Paris Salons. When he had a severe psychotic attack [late in 1877] and was hospitalized at the age of 28, his career as a landscape painter came to an untimely end."
– curator's text from a 2003 exhibition devoted to Hill at the Bawag Foundation in Vienna
(the post after this one will look at the work of Carl Fredrik Hill in the years following his breakdown, far less polished than the ambitious, youthful, French-inflected compositions on view here)
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Stone Quarry by the River Oise II 1877 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Beach Scene at Luc-sur-Mer 1876 oil on canvas, mounted on panel private collection |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Beach at Luc-sur-Mer 1876 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Wild Country in the Forest of Fontainebleau 1876 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill A Steep Ascent in Montigny-sur-Loing 1876 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill French Orchard ca. 1876 oil on canvas, mounted on panel private collection |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Blooming Fruit Tree 1877 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Landscape from Bois-le-Roi 1877 oil on canvas, mounted on panel private collection |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Seine Landscape with Poplars 1877 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill Seine Motif from St Germain 1877 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Carl Fredrik Hill River Landscape, Champagne 1876 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |