Frida kahlo 1951 biography timeline
Frida kahlo 1951 biography timeline
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Shaped by two cultures
Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City on 6th July 1907, the daughter of German photographer Carl Wilhelm Kahlo and Mexican painter Mathilde Calderón.
Frida Kahlo spent the vast majority of her life at her family home, La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in the metropolitan district of Coyoacán.
Just like her three sisters and the two half-sisters from her father’s previous marriage, Frida Kahlo rejected her mother’s strictly Catholic lifestyle.
This was a repeated source of tensions within the family.
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Frida Kahlo’s formative years
Her health problems began in 1914.
A congenital deformity of her spine kept Frida bound to her bed for much of her childhood.
In 1922, Frida Kahlo was one of the first girls to be admitted to the renowned Escuela Nacional Preperatoria school, where she prepared to study medicine.
Following her serious accident in September 1925, she began to train with Fernando Fernández, a co