Carl Fredrik Hill: Swedish Visionary and Modernist

Friday, November 20, 2009

Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America

'Carl Fredrik Hill, Swedish Visionary and Modernist: Drawings from the Malm?? Art Museum,' is the first major exhibition in America devoted to Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911), one of the most important and original Swedish artists of the 19th century. It is comprised of the expressive and visionary drawings Hill produced during the last 30 years of his life, a period in which he was regarded as incurably insane. Although dismissed by his contemporaries, these late drawings are now recognized as important precursors of such movements as Surrealism, Expressionism, and even Pop Art. selection of 75 drawings, many never before exhibited in the U.S., comes from the collections of Sweden's Malm?? Art Museum.