Artists out of copyright in 2009
No extra copyright fee. Hassle free clearance
January can be a miserable month but the switch to 2009 means new artists, including Ludwig Kirchner, are now out of copyright and available for you to use without the hassle of extra clearance procedures or pesky copyright fees.
Please see below for a snapshot of just some of the work by these artists, all of which died approximately 70 years ago.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke, a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art.
In 1933, his work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis and in 1937, over 600 of his works were confiscated from public museums in Germany and were sold or destroyed. The psychological trauma of these events, along with the Nazi occupation of Austria, close to his home, led to his suicide in 1938.
View over 100 images by Ludwig Kirchner on the Bridgeman website
See below for more examples of artwork/artists out of copyright in 2009
