Still Life

Oppstilling (1995)

Watercolor on paper
Sigurd Bergmann

In Oppstilling — Still Life — Sigurd Bergmann approaches the traditional genre with a gentle, almost dreamlike hand. Painted in 1995, this composition of fruit, a translucent bottle, and a basket of grapes radiates with softness and warmth, rendered in luminous watercolor washes.

The forms emerge from a blue-toned background like memories — the grapes sparkling with delicate highlights, apples and oranges glowing in soft golds, greens, and reds. Everything is bathed in light, and yet nothing feels rigid or over-defined. Sigurd’s brush dances between suggestion and shape, inviting the viewer to sense the presence of each object rather than simply observe it.

This is a still life in its most poetic form — less about arrangement, more about atmosphere. Oppstilling feels timeless, light-filled, and deeply human.