Her work was widely exhibited in Mexico, New York and Paris. Kahlo was the seventh of eight daughters born to a successful German photographer, the son of Jewish Hungarians, who had emigrated to Mexico and a Mexican-Indian mother. It was her dad who introduced her to art, photography ...
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 ...
Born to a religious mother and atheist father, young Frida Kahlo gravitated more towards the latter, who was also a photographer. She loved him dearly and followed him around constantly, though her initial dreams were not to herself become an artist, but rather a doctor. In college, she was...
Kahlo was born to a German father of Hungarian descent and a Mexican mother of Spanish andNative Americandescent. Later, during her artistic career, Kahlo explored her identity by frequently depicting her ancestry as binary opposites: the colonial European side and theindigenousMexican side. As a ...