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frida kahlo birth
Frida was the third daughter of the photographer Guillermo Kahlo, a German nationalized Mexican immigrant, and of Matilde Calderón, a Mexican.2 5 Her two older sisters were Matilde (born in 1899) and Adriana (born in 1902); after them his only brother was born, Guillermo (born in 1906 and who survived only a few days). Frida was born in July 1907 and only eleven months later, in June 1908, her younger sister, Cristina. -
virus infection at the six years old
Frida would become a standard bearer of this new era, breaking models from the past and in turn proposing new artistic formulas that would recover the authentic Mexican identity. In 1913, when she was only six years old, she contracted the polio virus, affecting one of her legs. -
automovilistic accident
On September 17, 1925, Frida suffered a serious accident when the bus in which she was traveling was run over by a tram, being crushed against a wall and completely destroyed. She was returning home from school with Alejandro Gómez Arias, her boyfriend at the time. Her spinal column was fractured in three parts, also suffering fractures in two ribs, in the clavicle and three in the pelvic bone. Her right leg was fractured in eleven parts, her right foot was dislocated, -
frida begins to paint
In September 1926 he painted his first self-portrait in oil, which he dedicated to Alejandro Gómez Arias 23 In this first work, he undertook a dynamic that would continue the rest of his life: to reflect in his paintings the events of his life and the feelings that they produced in him 18 -
last years of life
On April 19, 1954, she was admitted to the English hospital after a suicide attempt and, although she wrote in her diary that she had promised not to relapse, on May 6 she had to be hospitalized again for the same reason. However, courage and courage would accompany her until the end: mobilizing in a wheelchair, on July 2 she participated, along with Diego de Rivera and Juan O'Gorman, in a protest demonstration against the US intervention in Guatemala.32 -
Death
Frida Kahlo died in Coyoacán on July 13, 1954. No autopsy was performed. Her remains were veiled at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and her coffin was covered with the flag of the Mexican Communist Party, a fact that the national press profusely criticized.
Her last painting is also on display at the Frida Kahlo Museum. It is an oil painting on masonite that shows several cuts of watermelons in very bright tones.