Wheels is a photograph by Jean Hall which was uploaded on June 18th, 2015.
Title
Wheels
Artist
Jean Hall
Medium
Photograph - Digitally Manipulated Photography
Description
What better place to photograph an Audi hubcap than its native Germany? This one was on a sleek silver model parked right outside our hotel in Karlsruhe. And several years later, I decided to glam it up by doing this abstract.
For those who'd like a bit of background, Audi was founded by August Horch, who was unable to call his business by his family name after his partners in a previous auto company sued him for trademark infringement. Since Horch means "hark" or "listen" in German, Horch's son -- who was studying Latin in a corner during a company meeting -- suggested he use the name "Audi," which is the Latin equivalent.
The four rings in the Audi logo represent the four companies that merged into the Auto-Union consortium of 1932: Audi, Horch, DKW, and Wanderer. Today, Audi is is an almost wholly owned subsidiary of Volkswagen.
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June 18th, 2015
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