982 - Martin Wirth, "Dorf im Böhmerwald", Šumava, church tower above red gabled roofs, village view, 1974

Martin Wirth, "Dorf im Böhmerwald", Šumava, church tower above red gabled roofs, village view, 1974 (1939 – 2017 Ilsenburg), watercolour on paper, signed "WIRTH" and dated (19)74 lower right, inscribed verso "Dorf im Böhmerwald 1974", view of a village from an elevated viewpoint, behind deciduous trees a church tower with tall pointed spire, in front houses with red gabled roofs, in the foreground a shed and wooden fences, good condition commensurate with age, stained in places, edges slightly creased, slight tear upper left, image 48x36 cm (HxW) The Bohemian Forest, Czech Šumava, is a low mountain range in the border region of the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. From the 14th century glassworks shaped the villages of the forest region. To transport the timber of the mountain forests, floating canals were built, among them the Schwarzenberg and the Chinitz-Tettau floating canals. The writer Adalbert Stifter was born in Oberplan, Czech Horní Planá, in the Bohemian Forest. "I have been painting since I could hold a brush", said the art teacher Martin Wirth from Darlingerode (today part of Ilsenburg) in 2011.