INGLES

KAREN GOMEZ
JOHANA MUÑOZ
GRUPO C

FRIDA KAHLO BIOGRAPHY

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon was born on 6 July of 1907, she was the third of four
daughters.

At six years old she was sick causing her right leg was shorter. But this doesn’t mattered and she
became in a good student

In September 17 of 1925, Frida was 18 and she had a tragic accident, she traveled in a bus and this
was crash for a trolley car. She broken many bones and hurt the spinal cord. She was immobilize
for many months, thanks to that she began to paint, met many artist like Diego Rivera, he was a
famous muralist.

In 1929 Frida and Diego Married, they lived in the Blue House, house of Kahlo’s family. They lived
too in many places like Cuernavaca, Mexico City, San Francisco and New York

In 1930 Frida was pregnant but she lost the baby. The same year they traveled to San Francisco
and they Frida met the Doctor Leo Eloesser, he became in a great friend

In 1939 Frida divorced with Diego, but one year later they married again.

She had a bad health, but she always was artist and activist very active. She was a member of the
Communist Party, and left activist. Frida and Diego remodeled the blue house and served as an
asylum for Leon Trotsky and his wife, Natalia; Leon was a Russian politician leader of an
international left movement, he arrived to Mexico in 1936, and Diego and Frida helped.

She was teacher in LA ESMERALDA National School of Painting and Sculpture. She always in her
work and her life tried to stay alive the roots Mexican. For example in the clothing in his self-
portraits.

She always said she didn’t paint his dreams, she painted his reality.

At the end of her life she had very bad healthy, from 1950 to 1951 she was in the hospital, and in
1953 she lost her right left.

Frida died in the Blue House, in Mexico City, on July 13 1954, at age of 47 years old.