German Motorcycles Print - Amazing 1904 NSU Art Nouveau Meets Steam Punk Image - Neckarsulmer Fahrrad-Werke A G

German Motorcycles Print - Amazing 1904 NSU Art Nouveau Meets Steam Punk Image - Neckarsulmer Fahrrad-Werke A GTreasures from THE VINTAGE & ANTIQUE MOTORCYCLE COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 24 x 16, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 16 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us. I purchased a strikingly handsome large format German magazine from 1904 just so that I could possess this wonderful

Treasures from THE VINTAGE & ANTIQUE MOTORCYCLE COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 24 x 16, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 16 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

I purchased a strikingly handsome large format German magazine from 1904 just so that I could possess this wonderful image. Now of course I will likely donate the periodical, complete with the original ad intact, to the library of the venerable German Society of Philadelphia.

There is a great deal about the history of the NSU company on line. For a number of years they were consistently one of the top selling marques in the world, holding that solid place equivalent to BSA in the United Kingdom. What drew me to this image was and is the bike and the factory as well as the 'Best In The World!' declaration, all embraced by a delightful art nouveau layout.

That and the fact that there were almost no cars or trucks or motorcycles on the road in 1904 pulls me in to this moment, a fun bit of wistful time travel I often allow myself to surrender to when working on imagery here at The Grand Review.

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• Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
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