Her father encouraged her to play soccer, go swimming, and even wrestle - highly unusual moves for a girl at the time - to help aid in her recovery. While she recovered from the illness, she limped when she walked because the disease had damaged her right leg and foot. She had two older sisters, Matilde and Adriana, and her younger sister, Cristina, was born the year after Kahlo.Īround the age of six, Kahlo contracted polio, which caused her to be bedridden for nine months. Kahlo's father, Wilhelm (also called Guillermo), was a German photographer who had immigrated to Mexico where he met and married her mother Matilde. Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico. She exhibited her paintings in Paris and Mexico before her death in 1954.
Kahlo later became politically active and married fellow communist artist Diego Rivera in 1929. Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident.
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