Karl Marx: In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5552
Quotes
- Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
- Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
- George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
- Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
- Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
- Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
- George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
- Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
- James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
- Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
- Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
- Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
- Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
- Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
- Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
- Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
- Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
- Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
- Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
- Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
- Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
- Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
- Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
- Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
- Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
- Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
- Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).
Karl Marx: At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or — what is but a legal expression for the same thing — with the property relations within which they have been at work hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic — in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so can we not judge of such a period of transformation by its own consciousness; on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained rather from the contradictions of material life, from the existing conflict between the social productive forces and the relations of production. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5553
Quotes
- Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
- Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
- George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
- Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
- Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
- Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
- George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
- Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
- James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
- Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
- Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
- Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
- Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
- Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
- Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
- Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
- Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
- Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
- Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
- Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
- Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
- Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
- Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
- Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
- Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
- Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
- Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).
Henrik Nordenberg
Carl Henrik Nordenberg (19 mai 1857 à Ringamåla landskommun ou Asarum près de Karlshamn, dans le sud de la Suède - 1er novembre 1928 à Düsseldorf) est un peintre de paysage, de genre et d'intérieur, graveur et lithographe allemand-suédois de l'école de Düsseldorf.
Nordenberg, neveu du peintre de genre Bengt Nordenberg, suivit son oncle à Düsseldorf en 1873, où il reçut des cours privés de ce dernier. De 1873 à 1883/1884, il étudia à l'académie des arts de Düsseldorf. Il y eut pour professeurs Andreas et Karl Müller, Heinrich Lauenstein, Eduard Gebhardt, Julius Roeting, Carl Ernst Forberg et Wilhelm Sohn. Après ses études, il devint membre de l'association d'artistes Malkasten, dont il fit partie jusqu'à sa mort. Sur la scène du Malkasten, il présenta en décembre 1909 plusieurs représentations du tableau vivant Guten Morgen, mein Liebchen d'après un tableau de Benjamin Vautier. Le rapport annuel de l'association des artistes notait que ce «tableau délicieux et plein d'humour [...] remportait toujours un grand succès d'hilarité ». Dans les années 1880, Nordenberg voyagea à Katwijk et Volendam. Lorsque le peintre de genre et d'intérieur suédois Anders Montan décéda à Düsseldorf le 14 mai 1917, Nordenberg était le dernier artiste des «Suédois de Düsseldorf», une colonie de peintres suédois autrefois florissante dans la ville.
L'une des préférences picturales de Nordenberg était de représenter des intérieurs avec des ouvertures et des perspectives en profondeur sur l'extérieur, par exemple par des fenêtres ouvertes, des portes et des balustrades de balcon. Il a souvent représenté des femmes dans des activités domestiques.
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Karl Marx: The bourgeois relations of production are the last antagonistic form of the social process of production — antagonistic not in the sense of individual antagonisms, but of one arising from the social conditions of life of the individuals; at the same time the productive forces developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for the solution of that antagonism. This social formation brings, therefore, the prehistory of society to a close. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5554
Quotes
- Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
- Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
- George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
- Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
- Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
- Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
- George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
- Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
- James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
- Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
- Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
- Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
- Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
- Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
- Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
- Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
- Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
- Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
- Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
- Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
- Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
- Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
- Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
- Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
- Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
- Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
- Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).
Richard Bergh
Sven Richard Bergh (28 décembre 1858 - 29 janvier 1919) était un peintre, critique d'art et directeur de musée suédois. Malgré de nombreuses années passées en France, il n'est pas attiré par l'impressionnisme, préférant le naturalisme de peintres tels que Jules Bastien-Lepage. Il rejette également l'idée de créer des paysages en plein air.
Ses deux parents, Johan Edvard Bergh et Amanda Helander (1825-1888), étaient des artistes et, vraisemblablement, ses premiers professeurs. Il commence ses études formelles avec Edvard Perséus, dans son école privée, puis, de 1878 à 1881, à l'Académie royale des beaux-arts de Suède. Ses premières œuvres sont des scènes de l'histoire suédoise, peintes dans le style académique. En 1881, il se rend à Paris, où il suit les cours de Jean-Paul Laurens à l'Académie Colarossi. Il expose pour la première fois au Salon en 1883 et termine ses études en 1884.
L'année suivante, il devient, avec son ami Ernst Josephson, membre de la colonie d'art nordique de Grez-sur-Loing. La même année, il rejoint les artistes suédois connus sous le nom d'opposants (Opponenterna), un groupe qui proteste contre ce qu'ils estiment être des méthodes d'enseignement dépassées à l'Académie. Peu après, ils créent l'Association des artistes (Konstnärsförbundet), dont Bergh devient le secrétaire. En 1886, il épouse Helena Maria Klemming (1863-1889), fille d'un libraire. Leur fille, Amie, naît la même année. Il avait peint son portrait en 1885, et elle lui servira de modèle à de nombreuses reprises au cours de leur court mariage.
N'ayant jamais été en bonne santé, Helena déclina après la naissance d'Amie et il commença à s'intéresser aux séances de spiritisme. Lorsqu'elle sentit la mort approcher, ils retournèrent à Stockholm, à sa demande, et c'est là qu'elle mourut de ce qui est simplement décrit comme une «maladie incurable». Peu de temps après, il attrape une pneumonie et frôle lui-même la mort. Pendant sa longue convalescence, Gerda Winkrans (1864-1919), dont le père était recteur dans la région, s'est occupée de lui. Il l'épouse en 1890.
En 1893, Bergh et sa famille s'installent à Varberg, où il envisage d'établir une colonie d'artistes. Avec Nils Kreuger et Karl Nordström, de vieux amis de l'Académie, il crée un nouveau style de peinture de paysage, connu sous le nom d'école de Varberg [sv] (Varbergsskolan). Il est également plus attiré par le nationalisme romantique, une prédilection renforcée par un séjour en Italie de 1897 à 1898, où l'art qu'il observe l'impressionne comme représentant exactement le contraire. Le peintre Hedvig Hamilton étudie avec lui à Stockholm.
En 1904, il décide de s'installer à Storängen, dans la municipalité de Nacka (qui fait aujourd'hui partie de Stockholm). Il engage l'architecte Albin Brag pour concevoir sa maison, aujourd'hui connue sous le nom de Villa Bergh à Värmdövägen. Gerda et lui y vivront jusqu'à leur mort. Malgré cette apparente retraite, il accepte en 1915 d'être nommé conservateur (Överintendent) et directeur du Nationalmuseum; il consacre ses dernières années à un projet de modernisation comprenant de nouvelles directives d'achat. Au cours de ces années, il écrit également de nombreux essais sur l'art et un compte rendu de sa participation à l'Opponenterna.
Ses œuvres sont exposées au musée d'art de Göteborg, au musée national, au musée nordique, à la bibliothèque universitaire d'Uppsala, à la galerie Thiel, au musée d'art de Malmö, au Livrustkammaren et au Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde.
Edward Bergh
Johan Edward Bergh (29 mars 1828 - 23 septembre 1880) était un juriste et un peintre paysagiste suédois, associé à l'école de Düsseldorf.
Bergh est né à Stockholm, en Suède. Il est le fils de Severin Bergh et d'Emma Forsström. Ses parents étaient commerçants. Il fréquente la Maria Læromsskola puis, en 1844, l'université d'Uppsala. Il étudie d'abord les sciences naturelles, puis se tourne vers des études juridiques et obtient une maîtrise en 1849. Il travaille d'abord comme notaire à la cour d'appel de Svea et à la mairie de Stockholm. Son intérêt pour l'art naît lors d'un voyage à Gotland, où il rencontre plusieurs artistes et se lie d'amitié avec l'architecte Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander.
De retour chez lui, il prend contact avec Johan Way, un professeur de son alma mater, qui compte la peinture parmi ses nombreuses réalisations. Par la suite, il consacre de moins en moins de temps au droit et de plus en plus à l'art. Sa première tentative d'inscription à l'Académie royale suédoise des beaux-arts est rejetée, mais il ne se décourage pas. Il commence à exposer sous les auspices de l'Association suédoise des arts (Sveriges allmänna konstförening). Le comte Michael Gustaf Anckarsvärd, fonctionnaire de l'Académie royale, assiste à l'une de ces expositions. Il est impressionné par le travail de Bergh et lui assure qu'une nouvelle candidature sera acceptée.
En 1854, il obtient une bourse qui lui permet d'effectuer un voyage d'études de trois ans. Il visite la Suisse, l'Italie et l'Allemagne, où il étudie à la Kunstakademie de Düsseldorf avec le peintre romantique norvégien Hans Gude. Il suit également les cours du peintre allemand de paysages et de marines Andreas Achenbach et du peintre paysagiste suisse Alexandre Calame.
En 1857, il crée une école de peinture de paysage à la Royal Academy et y devient professeur en 1861. En 1862, il est l'un des membres fondateurs de Sällskapet Idun, une association d'hommes. À la fin des années 1860, il s'éloigne des paysages traditionnels et se concentre sur des scènes du centre de la Suède. Il reçoit une médaille d'or à l'Exposition universelle (1867) à Paris.
En 1874, il est victime d'une hémorragie intracrânienne et devient partiellement paralysé. Il se met alors à répéter des motifs populaires et son œuvre ne retrouve jamais son niveau de qualité initial. Il meurt en 1880 à Stockholm.
En 1855, il épouse l'artiste Amanda Helander. Ils sont les parents de Richard Bergh (1858-1919), qui devient lui aussi peintre.
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