1006 - Martin Wirth, Bad Kohlgrub, Bavaria, village view and chickens against mountains, two sheets 2003

Martin Wirth, Bad Kohlgrub, Bavaria, village view and chickens against mountains, two sheets 2003 (1939 – 2017 Ilsenburg), two watercolours, 1) watercolour over pencil on paper, signed and dated (20)03 lower left, edge of a village before a violet mountain ridge, winding path with fence, grazing cows, on the right a house with wooden gable and balcony, two figures on a bench beneath a large deciduous tree, good condition, image 21x30 cm (HxW), 2) watercolour over pencil on paper, signed "Wi" and dated (20)03 lower left, hens and cockerels in front of a garden fence and wooden shed, beyond a wide meadow with fence posts, farmhouse and cloud-covered blue mountains, good condition, small edge damage at top, image 21x30 cm (HxW), each inscribed verso "M. Wirth, 2003 Bad Kohlgrub (Bayern)" Bad Kohlgrub lies at 828 metres in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, about eight kilometres north of Oberammergau, in the middle of the Ammergau Alps Nature Park. The spa town developed from 1871 around its mineral springs and later became known as a peat-bath resort. Above Bad Kohlgrub rises the Hörnle, 1547 metres high, to which a chairlift has run since 1954. Besides views of his native Harz, the watercolourist Martin Wirth also created landscape sheets from the Bavarian Alpine foothills.