1002 - Martin Wirth, Hotel Tekirova Corinthia near Kemer, garden before the Taurus Mountains, Turkey, 1995

Martin Wirth, Hotel Tekirova Corinthia near Kemer, garden before the Taurus Mountains, Turkey, 1995 (1939 – 2017 Ilsenburg), watercolour over pencil on card, signed and dated (19)95 lower right, inscribed verso "Hotel Tekirova Corinthia bei Kemer (am Taurus-Geb.) Türkei, 1995", on the left a multi-storey hotel building with balconies beneath tall trees with umbrella-shaped crowns, behind it a towering blue-violet mountain peak, the Tahtalı Dağı, in front a slope with agaves and boulders and a wide lawn, on the right bathers on loungers and a pavilion with green domed roof, good condition commensurate with age, slightly stained, corners creased, image 36x47 cm (HxW) Tekirova and Kemer in the province of Antalya lie within the Olympos Beydağları National Park, founded in 1972. Above the coast rises the 2,366 metre high Tahtalı Dağı, called Olympos in antiquity, a summit of the Bey Dağları in the Western Taurus. Calabrian pines grow along the coast. The hotel watercolour was painted on a holiday trip by the Harz art teacher Martin Wirth.