999 - Martin Wirth, "Blick auf die Wismarer Bucht", Baltic landscape with yellow fields and pond, 1977

Martin Wirth, "Blick auf die Wismarer Bucht", Baltic landscape with yellow fields and pond, 1977 (1939 – 2017 Ilsenburg), watercolour on paper, with silver-coloured heightening, signed and dated (19)77 lower right, inscribed verso with the name and address of the artist in Darlingerode, from the series "Urlaub in Wismar (1977)", sheet "IV", and titled "Blick auf die Wismarer Bucht", view from a hill across yellow fields and a pond with reeds and bushes onto the wide expanse of water, on the left houses between trees, on the water a small island with a tower and on the right a ship, condition commensurate with age, light-stained at the margins, stained in places, image 24x36 cm (HxW) The Bay of Wismar is the southernmost corner of the Baltic Sea and forms part of the Bay of Mecklenburg; off the Hanseatic town lie the island of Poel, the small island of Walfisch and the Lieps sandbank. A buoyed fairway leads ships through the bay into the port of Wismar, and the waters are today designated as an FFH and bird protection area. Martin Wirth painted the sheet in 1977 as the fourth of a series he called "Urlaub in Wismar". The teacher and art educator from Darlingerode (today part of Ilsenburg) said by his own account that he came to painting mainly while on holiday.