1000 - Martin Wirth, Norway, Jotunheimen, Sognefjell with a view of Fanaråken, mountain landscape, 1995

Martin Wirth, Norway, Jotunheimen, Sognefjell with a view of Fanaråken, mountain landscape, 1995 (1939 – 2017 Ilsenburg), watercolour over pencil on paper, signed and dated (19)95 lower left, inscribed and dated July 1995 verso, titled "Norwegen", "Im Jotunheimer Nationalpark entlang des Sognefjells mit Blick auf den Fanaråken (2068 m ü NN)", snow-covered mountain range with pointed peaks above a high plateau with snowfields, to the right by the road a red wooden building and a small hut, in the foreground lichen-covered boulders and a stream, condition commensurate with age, slightly stained, lower left corner with a loss, image 36x48 cm (HxW) Jotunheimen National Park, established in 1980 and covering 1,151 km², contains the three highest peaks in Northern Europe, Galdhøpiggen, Glittertind and Store Skagastølstind; the name means home of the giants and goes back to the poet Aasmund Olavsson Vinje. At the edge of the high mountains the Sognefjellsvegen runs from Lom to Gaupne, a mountain pass road opened in 1938 which reaches 1,434 m at Fantesteinen and is today one of the National Tourist Routes of Norway. Fannaråken, also spelled Fanaråken, is 2,068 m high and bears the highest-situated hut of the Norwegian Trekking Association DNT. The Harz watercolourist Martin Wirth, who died in 2017, travelled through this fjell in July 1995.