Born on July 6, 1907, her real name is Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón. Her dad was a German immigrant, and her mom was Spanish and American Indian. She was the third out of four siblings, all girls. She also had two half-sisters from her father’s previous marriage. ...
When Frida Kahlo was 18 years old, she seemed on the verge of claiming the life she’d imagined. The daughter of a German artist father and a Mexican mother, Kahlo had wanted to be a doctor since she was a child. She was pursuing that dream through her studies at the National Preparat...
Frida Kahlo was one of the most influential Latin American figures of the 20th century.As the daughter of a German father and a Mexican mother,she was born on July 6,1907.She grew up in Coyoacan,on the outskirts of Mexico City. When she was seven,a viral disease called polio made her...
Stills, archival footage, and animations based on Kahlo’s works combine in a vivid mix, the better to help us appreciate this passionate creator in all her pain and glory. Born to a religious mother and atheist father, young Frida Kahlo gravitated more towards the latter, who was also a ...
Born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Calderón on July 6, 1907, in Mexico City, Mexico to a German-born father and Mexican mother, she studied philosophy and medicine as a youth. At the age of 18, Kahlo was involved in a traumatic bus accident that left her badly injured and confined to ...
1. Frida Kahlo is one not only Mexico's most iconic artists, but one of the world's most iconic artists as well. She was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyocoan Mexico City, Mexico. Her father was of German descent and migrated to Mexico where he met her mother, who was half Spanish ...
Frida Kahlo,The Broken Column, 1944, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City, Mexico. The start of Kahlo’s artistic career coincides with her recovery from the accident. As she spent 3 months immobilized in a full-body cast, her father gave her his old paints, while her mother had a mirror ...
1. Frida Kahlo is one not only Mexico's most iconic artists, but one of the world's most iconic artists as well. She was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyocoan Mexico City, Mexico. Her father was of German descent and migrated to Mexico where he met her mother, who was half Spanish ...
It was her dad who introduced her to art, photography and archeology. The girl both loved and scorned her uneducated and very religious mother. There were two older half-sisters from her father's first marriage, four more older sisters, then Frida and a younger sister. As a kid, she was...
Carol (right) and her sisters Christina, Mathilde, and Adriana, filming their father Carol later described the atmosphere of her childhood home as often "very sad.". ]Her mother, she said, was "a good, positive, intelligent, calculating, cruel and fanatical religion.". Mathilde's relationship...