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1954 BCE
Frida Kahlo: Death
Frida Kahlo died on July 13, 1954 at the age of 47 at her home in Coyoacan, now known as the Frida Kahlo Museum. The cause of his death was a pulmonary embolism. -
1950 BCE
Love Life: Leo Eloesser
He was her surgeon in San Francisco. From there, they started a friendship. She painted him a portrait and their relationship continued through letters. -
1947 BCE
Artworks: Self portrait with loose hair
Frida painted herself so that her hair could be appreciated, doing this self-portrait we know that she wanted to please Diego, who adored her long, abundant hair. -
1946 BCE
Love Life: José Bartolí
Frida wrote him many letters where she showed her love for him. Bartolí jumped from a train which was going to a concentration camp, he survived and started a new life drawing. They both met each other in a hospital. -
1944 BCE
Artworks: The broken spine
In her youth, she faces a disastrous bus accident that caused her many fractures. Frida drew herself naked from the waist up, with a steel corset that held her body. -
1939 BCE
Love Life: Heinz Berggruen
Diego presented Heinz to Frida and quickly, they became lovers. After the World Fair, they run away to New York and they had a short romance. One month later, Heinz came back to Germany and Frida with Diego. -
1938 BCE
Love Life: Jaqueline Lamba
Their relationship was privately because both of them were married to their husbands. -
1937 BCE
Love Life: León Trostsky
Their relationship could be due to two things. The first one: a revenge of the artist because Diego Rivera had slept with his sister , and the second one: his great intelligence and political stance. -
1936 BCE
Love Life: Isamu Noguchi
They met by Diego Rivera and Noguchi's fame was not the best place to trust him. He seduced Frida and they started a romance. -
1934 BCE
Love Life: Chavela Vargas
They were friends for a long time. One day she wrote a letter to a friend declaring her love to Chavela, but they weren't in an official relationship. -
1931 BCE
Love Life: Nickolas Muray
He was a photographer and they met in Mexico. Their relationship was intermittent for ten years. They started after the separation of Muray with his second wife and a little later Frida got married with Diego. -
1931 BCE
Artworks: Frida and Diego Rivera
She shows them both looking forward with serious expressions but holding hands as a symbol of the great love they had. -
1928 BCE
Love life: Diego Rivera
He was the love of her life. They met because of Germán del Campo. On the 21st of August, 1929, they got married. Their relationship was full of infidelities, so they got divorced. -
1925 BCE
Love Life: Alejandro Gómez Arias
They had a forbidden relationship, because her parents didn't approve it. -
Biography
-Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, México, on the 6th of July, 1907.
-Her father was Jewish-Hungarian and her mother an Indian-Mexican
-When she was 18, she suffered serious injuries in a bus accident.
-While she was injured, she started to paint. Her paints were full of colours and inspired in folk Mexican art.
