Editing Carl Fredrik Hill (section)

===Career===
[[File:French River Landscape, Bois-le-Roi (Carl Fredrik Hill) - Gothenburg Museum of Art - GKM 0522.tif|thumb|250px|'' Seine landscape and Populus'' (1877)]]
[[File:Wild Country in the Forest of Fontainebleau (Carl Fredrik Hill) - Nationalmuseum - 18869.tif|thumb|250 px|''Wild Country in the Forest of Fontainebleau'' (1876)]]
[[File:Seine. Motif from St Germain (Carl Fredrik Hill) - Nationalmuseum - 18870.tif|thumb|250 px|''Seine. Motif from St Germain'' (1877)]]

Hill wrote: “I have become convinced that art has no other goal than the truth, le vrai. Not the tritely naturalistic, but the true heart." He sought his subjects at different sites in France; [[Montigny-sur-Loing]], [[Champagne, France|Champagne]] and [[Normandy]]. Influenced by [[Impressionism]], he abandoned the dark coloration of his early paintings in 1876, and began painting in a freer style, sometimes applying impasto with a palette knife.<ref name="Gunnarsson_GAO"/> "Ambition drives me to overexert myself and I give myself no peace" he said. Yet, Hill's endeavors were not crowned with official success; his works were rejected when he presented them at the [[Salon (Paris)|Paris Salon]]. After a severe psychotic attack in January 1878 and subsequent hospitalization, his career as a landscape painter came to an end at the age of 28. He was diagnosed with [[hallucinations]] and [[paranoia]]. Friends helped him return home to Sweden where he gained sanctuary at his parental home after a short period at St. Lars mental hospital in Lund. At home he was cared for by his mother and a sister for 28 years until his death in 1911.<ref name="Gunnarsson_GAO"/> Hill was buried at Östra churchyard in Lund.<ref name="sbl"/>