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Birth
1907 (Mexico City, Mexico)
Death
1954 (Mexico City, Mexico)
Lived/Active
New York / Mexico
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abstract painting-female themes
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Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City. Her real name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Calderon; she was the daughter of a German Jewish father and a Mexican mother. She lived her adult life in the shadow of her husband, Diego Rivera, the muralist who was a Mexican national hero. She had known him since childhood and when he divorced his second wife, they embarked on a violent courtship.
Both were temperamental and noisy Communists; she proudly pointed out that she had never been (showing 500 of 2958 characters). |
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