The Quiet Observer of Ghent Born in Ghent in 1891, Jacques Bergmans lived a life deeply connected to the textures and rhythms of his surroundings. He spent his years in the same city where he was born and where he eventually passed away in 1959. His work suggests a man who spent much of his time watching the way light settles on a landscape or how the movement of a crowd defines a street. There is a certain stillness in his approach,…