Frida kahlo biography brevete

Frida Kahlo's life in brief

Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderónon on July 6, 1907 in the house of her parents, known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacan. Kahlo's mother, Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez, was of mixed Spanish and indigenous ancestry, while his father Guillermo Kahlo Kauffmann was German of Hungarian descent.

Frida always claimed to be born on 1910, the year of the outbreak of the Mexican revolution, so that people could directly associate her with the modern Mexico.

This detail well introduces us to a singular personality, characterized since her childhood by a deep sense of independence and rebellion against ordinary social and moral habits, moved by passion and sensuality, proud of her "Mexicanidad" and cultural tradition set against the reigning Americanization: everything mixed with a peculiar sense of humour.

Her life was marked by physical suffering, started with the poli