Frida Kahlo Biography

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (1907-1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.

While some of Frida Kahlo's works may have technically entered the public domain in the UK and EU in 2025, the Frida Kahlo Corporation has pending trademarks registered under her name, which will continue to protect the specific goods and services designated in those registrations, including digital products.  In this regard, the Frida Kahlo Corporation has a multitude of pending trademark registrations protecting, among other goods, multimedia products in class 09 of the Nice Classification.

As indicated above, these goods include digital images; therefore, the commercialisation of any digital image under the ‘Frida Kahlo’ trademarks would constitute trademark infringement.

As far as we can make out, there are only a handful of particular Frida Kahlo images registered for specific applications, and these registrations are still pending, as is the use of the name ‘Frida Kahlo’ in connection with downloadable image files. For now, as the allowable usage doesn’t fit with what we do at Public Domain Image Library (ie., you can’t use the images for ‘any purpose’), we wouldn’t be able to include any Frida Kahlo artwork at this time.