Guillermo Kahlo（1871–1941），1932 年 · 公有领域。
6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954
Frida Kahlo, full name Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
Frida Kahlo · 墨西哥
20th-century Mexican painter, known for intensely coloured self-portraits confronting the body and identity.
Born on 6 July 1907 in Coyoacán, a southern suburb of Mexico City, her father was a German immigrant photographer; she had polio in childhood and at 18 suffered a severe traffic accident, after which she underwent about 35 operations and taught herself painting while bedridden; in 1929 she married the muralist Diego Rivera (divorced 1939, remarried 1940); her works fuse Mexican folk art, vivid colour, and imagery of personal trauma, with 55 self-portraits making up a large share of her 143 works; from 1943 she taught painting in Mexico City; she died on 13 July 1954 at her Coyoacán home.
People & stories
Places in their life
Birthplace and place of death Coyoacán (now a district of Mexico City); her home, the "Blue House", is now the Frida Kahlo Museum; places of activity the National Preparatory School, Mexico City, and the Ministry of Education painting school.
People
Cultural significance
One of the visual symbols of post-revolutionary Mexican cultural identity; her self-portraits turned the female body, pain, and Mexican native dress into a globally recognised visual language; the "Blue House" has become Mexico City's most important artist's house museum.
