Frida kahlo biography deutsch englisch

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954), MexicanPainter usually known as Frida Kahlo.

She was known for her surreal and very personal works.

Frida kahlo biography deutsch englisch

She was married to Diego Rivera, also a well-known painter.

She was born in Coyoacán, Mexico to a German father and Mexican mother. She was close with her father from a very young age mainly due to him being a professional photographer.

She had polio that left her disabled when she was 6 years old and some think that she may have had spina bifida (a birth defect affecting the development of part of the spine) as well. She studied medicine and was going to become a doctor.

Because of a traffic accident in a tram at age 18 which badly injured her, she had periods of severe pain for the rest of her life.

Frida kahlo biography deutsch englisch translation

After this accident, Kahlo no longer continued her medical studies but took up painting. She used ideas about things that had happened to her. Her paintings are often shocking in the way they sh