"Alpine lake" (Austria) Artist-Viktor Yushkevich. #5 picture in 2020.

Friends, I greet you. “Alpine lake“ (Austria) picture number #5 in 2020. Size 50/70 cm. Painting for sale: Alpine traditions Even the very first settlers in the alpine regions of Western Austria preferred to live at high altitudes. It was more difficult to get to them than in the valleys, which were often swampy, prone to mudflows and without paths. Thus, the supposedly insurmountable borders of the mountains were already conquered in the early history of the region, and the region was divided in half by trade routes stretching to the Mediterranean Sea. The best evidence of this was the discovery in 1991 of Ötz Ice, whose body was discovered at an altitude of 10,500 feet on the Ötztal Alps glacier, and which traded about 5,300 years ago in the area surrounding Lake Garda. The way that Ötzi moved between different valleys and levels of vegetation lives on to this day in many of the “moving” traditions of alpine culture. These p