Three Cats

Three cats. Artist: Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) Date: 1913. Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 72 × 102 cm (28.3 × 40.2 in) Current location: Current location: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.

Franz Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.

This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF. Works published before 1923 in this case 1913, are now in the public domain.

This image is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris), in this case, Franz Marc (1880–1916), and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from the last day of that year. +sookie tex