Biography
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in coyocoan mexico city, mexico. kahlo grew up in the family's home where she was born- later referred as the blue house or casa azul. her father wilhelm (also called Guillermo) was a German photographer who had immigrated to mexico where he met and married her mother matilde. She had two older sisters Matilde and Adriana and her young sister Cristina was born the year after Frida. Considered one of mexico's greatest artists, frida kahlo began painting after she severely injured in a bus accident. kahlo later became politicaly active and married fellow communist artist Diego Rivera in 1929. she exhibited her painting in paris and mexico before her death in 1958.
www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/
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Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in coyocoan mexico city, mexico. kahlo grew up in the family's home where she was born- later referred as the blue house or casa azul. her father wilhelm (also called Guillermo) was a German photographer who had immigrated to mexico where he met and married her mother matilde. She had two older sisters Matilde and Adriana and her young sister Cristina was born the year after Frida. Considered one of mexico's greatest artists, frida kahlo began painting after she severely injured in a bus accident. kahlo later became politicaly active and married fellow communist artist Diego Rivera in 1929. she exhibited her painting in paris and mexico before her death in 1958.
www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/
www.fridakahlo.com/