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Birth
Frida was born on July 6, 1907, in in Mexico City. In the house of her parents that is now known as the "Casa Azul". -
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The family (her sisters)
Her two older sisters were Matilde (born in 1899) and Adriana (born in 1902); after them was born his only brother, Guillermo (born in 1906 and who survived only a few days). In July 1907 Frida was born and only eleven months later, in June 1908, her younger sister, Cristina. In addition, Frida had three older sisters by her father: Luisa (born in 1894), María (born in 1896 and died a few days after birth) and Margarita, all daughters of her father's first marriage with María Cardeña Espino. -
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The family (her parents)
Daughter of Wilhelm (Guillermo) Kahlo, of Hungarian-German descent, and Matilde Calderón, originally from Oaxaca, Frida was the third of four daughters. Her two sisters, Matilde and Adriana, were the eldest and Cristina, the youngest. -
Frida contracted poliomyelitis
Frida contracted poliomyelitis, starting a series of successive illnesses, various injuries, accidents and operations. This first illness forced her to stay in bed for nine months and left a permanent sequel: the right leg much thinner than the left -
How you started painting?
At the beginning of 1925, shortly before the accident, he had worked as an apprentice in the engraving and printing workshop of Fernando Fernández Domínguez.
After the accident he suffered as it was better not to move to help the healing, he began to paint and that is how painting took center stage in his life. During his long convalescence he began to paint more constantly. And in September of 1926 he painted his first self-portrait on oil that he dedicated to Alejandro Gómez Arias. -
The accident
Frida suffered a serious accident and her spine was fractured in three parts, also suffering fractures in two ribs, in the clavicle and three in the pelvic bone. Her right leg was fractured in eleven parts, her right foot dislocated, her left shoulder was dislocated and a handrail pierced her from the left hip until it came out through the vagina. -
The first box "Autorretrato con traje de terciopelo"
At age 19, Frida painted her first oil painting.
Her first painting was a gift for her boyfriend Alejandro Gómez Arias, who had ended the relationship, because he thought Frida had cheated on him. And Behind the painting, Frida wrote: "Today is always still". -
Marriage
Frida married with Diego Rivera.Their relationship was based on love, adventures with other people, hatred ...
In 1939 they divorced and after a year they remarried. -
Children
Frida was pregnant about three times but had to have an abortion because of the action -
Her first exhibition at Levy Gallery
In October 1938, Frida had her first solo exhibition at Levy Gallery in New York.
Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, one another it was fixed of the painting he wanted for his collection: Fulang Chang and me. But the work had already been saved for another person, convinced of wanting to acquire a work of Frida, commissioned a similar self-portrait. A week later, the work was ready: self-portrait with monkey -
The broken Column
The complete work is a desperate cry of pain.
The work can be interpreted as a symbol of the pain that Frida suffered in her entire body due to the bus accident that caused her many fractures and injuries that she would suffer for the rest of her life. -
Death
Frida Kahlo died at forty-seven at the "Casa Azul" in Mexico City on July 13, 1954 because she had a pulmonary thrombosis. the National Institute of Fine Arts prepared a retrospective exhibition for her as a National Homage.
