968 - Martin Wirth, "Brno", old town street, market stalls and town hall tower, Brno, Moravia, dated 1985

Martin Wirth, "Brno", old town street, market stalls and town hall tower, Brno, Moravia, dated 1985 (1939 – 2017 Ilsenburg), pen and watercolour on paper, signed and dated "WIRTH 85" lower left, inscribed verso "Brno 85 (Slovakei)", busy old town street with the tower of the Old Town Hall with clock, gallery and green spire with corner turrets, on the left a façade with wooden scaffolding, on the right a corner house with red roof and shop front, a blue lorry in the centre, in the foreground market stalls and passers-by, good condition commensurate with age, minimally stained, edges partially creased, image 37x24.5 cm (HxW) Brno, German Brünn, has been the capital of Moravia since 1641 and belonged to Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1992; today the city lies in the Czech Republic. The tall tower belongs to the Old Town Hall, considered the oldest secular building in the city; this 63 m tower is today a lookout tower, the legendary Brno Dragon and the wheel hang in the passageway, and the late Gothic portal was created by Anton Pilgram in 1511. Right next to it lies the Zelný trh, the Cabbage Market, probably the setting of the market in the foreground, where vegetables, flowers and seasonal goods have been sold for centuries; the square is dominated by the Baroque Parnassus Fountain, built from 1693 to 1695 to a design by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.