Artist frida kahlo biography youtube
Mexican artist frida kahlo...
Frida Kahlo
(1907-1954)
Quick Facts:
FULL NAME: Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
BORN: JULY 6, 1907
BIRTHPLACE: Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Cancer
Who Was Frida Kahlo?
Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident.
Artist frida kahlo biography youtube
Kahlo later became politically active and married fellow communist artist Diego Rivera in 1929. She exhibited her paintings in Paris and Mexico before her death in 1954.
Family, Education and Early Life
Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico.
Kahlo's 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 younger sister, Cristina, was born the year after Kahlo.
Around the age of six, Kahlo contracted polio, which caus