Benutzer:Gnom/Public Domain Day

This page aims at preparing for Public Domain Day 2025 on January 1, 2025. It collects notable artists that died in 1954.

List of artists who died in 1954

This is a list of notable artists that died in 1954. It is not meant to be comprehensive, please help by adding other notable artists. Candidates suitable for mentioning in a blog posts are marked in bold.

Resources

• German Wikisource: Gemeinfrei 2025
• English Wikipedia: 2025 in public domain
• German Wikipedia: Nekrolog 1954
• Wikimedia Commons: Category:Undelete in 2025
• German Wikipedia: Countdown zur Gemeinfreiheit

Fiction writers

• SPARQL-Query auf query.wikidata.org
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Please help expand this list by adding a notable fiction writer that died in 1954.

Non-fiction writers

• SPARQL-Query auf query.wikidata.org

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Please help expand this list by adding a notable non-fiction writer that died in 1954.

Composers

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Please help expand this list by adding a notable composer that died in 1954.

Painters and sculptors

• Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
• Henri Matisse, French painter
• painter SPARQL-Query auf query.wikidata.org
• sculptor SPARQL-Query auf query.wikidata.org
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Please help expand this list by adding a notable fiction painter or sculptor that died in 1954.

Photographers

• SPARQL-Query auf query.wikidata.org
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Please help expand this list by adding a notable photographer that died in 1954.

Architects

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Please help expand this list by adding a notable architect that died in 1954.

Other artists

Please help expand this list by adding a notable artist that died in 1954.

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List of works published in 1929 and sound recordings published in 1924

Please help expand this list by adding a notable works entering the Public Domain in the United States.

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Blog posts

2025

Bitte hier einen Entwurf für einen Beitrag einfügen. / Please create a draft here.

2024

• WMF Diff: Welcome to the Public Domain, Mickey Mouse!
• Wikimedia Deutschland Blog: Wikimedia Deutschland feiert den Public Domain Day 2024
• NJW Aktuell: "Steamboat Willie" – Schutzfrist abgelaufen?
• Communia Blog: How Mickey Mouse entered the Public Domain in 2024 – but not in Germany
• Deutschlandfunk Kultur: „Urheberrecht kann ganz schnell politisch werden“ (radio interview)

2023

• WMF Diff: Public Domain Day 2023: Opening a treasure trove of art, science, and literature
• Wikimedia Deutschland Blog: Tag der Gemeinfreiheit 2023: Maria Montessoris und Sven Hedins Werke erweitern den Schatz des Freien Wissens

2022

• WMF Diff: Winnie-the-Pooh and Wittgenstein: celebrating Public Domain Day 2022
• Wikimedia Deutschland Blog: Tag der Gemeinfreiheit 2022: Wittgenstein, Schönberg und Pu der Bär jetzt frei nutzbar

2021

• WMF Diff: Happy Public Domain Day 2021!
• Wikimedia Deutschland Blog: Public Domain Day 2021 – Tag der Gemeinfreiheit
• German Wikipedia: Zum Public Domain Day 2021 – mit Schlaglicht auf Island by Gestumblindi

2020

• Wikimedia Space: Celebrating Public Domain Day 2020

2019

• German Wikipedia: Tag der Gemeinfreiheit 2019

2018

• German Wikipedia: Tag der Gemeinfreiheit 2018

2017

• German Wikipedia: Tag der Gemeinfreiheit 2017

2016

• English Wikipedia: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
• German Wikipedia: Tag der Gemeinfreiheit 2016
• Twitter: Happy Public Domain Day!

2015

• German Wikipedia: "Happy Public Domain Day!"
• German Wikipedia: "Gemeinfrei zum 1.1.2015"

2014

• English Wikipedia: "Public Domain Day. Why the year 2019 is so significant"