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Who is Frida Kahlo?
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico City, but she often told people she was born in 1910, 3 years after her actual birth, so that people would directly associate her with the Mexican Revolution that began in 1910. Kahlo became an embodiment of Mexican culture, especially indigenous culture, but she herself wasn't fully Mexican: her father was born Carl Wilhelm Kahlo in Germany, either of Jewish and Hungarian ancestry, as Frida claimed, or from a long line of German Lutherans, as some new research argues. Frida's mother, Matilde Calderon, was of indigenous Mexican and Spanish descent.
She became a painter after a near fatal accident. On September 17th 1925 Frida and her friend Alex was riding in a bus when it crashed into a street trolley car. Recuperation after the bus accident took over a year, during which time Kahlo gave up her pre-med program and began painting.
She is known as the master of Self-Portraits. In her career, Frida Kahlo created 143 paintings out of which 55 are self-portraits. Kahlo said, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."
Kahlo was bisexual, and made no secret of her affairs and relationships with women as well as men.
She became famous a couple of decades after her death. Kahlo died 20 days after her 47th birthday on July 26, 1954.
Product Description:
Length: 29.7cm
Width: 21cm
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Printed on Archival Paper
