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Frida was born in Coyoicoán, Mexico City, Mexico, on July 6, 1907 to a German father and Spanish mother.
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One of only 35 girls out of 2000 applicants accepted to the prestigious Escuela Nacional Preparatoria with dreams of practicing medicine.
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Involved in bad accident that left her with a permanent limp and dashed her dreams of practicing medicine. While recovering she began to paint. Painted many self-portraits revealing her physical and emotional pain.
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In this early self-portrait Frida painted herself in the clothes of a wealthy european, in stark contrast to her self-portrait of 1929 where she paints herself in Mexican clothes and jewelry.
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This was a wedding portrait of Frida and Diego. In this painting "Frida adopts a stiff pose which is an influence of naive nineteenth-century painters such as Jose Maria Estrada." These type painters influenced Diego Rivera too.
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In "The Two Fridas," painted right after she divorced Diego Rivera, Frida depicted her sadness and lonliness painting two pictures of herself with her heart taken out of one and put into another.
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Frida died one week after completing her last painting, "Long Live Life." Four years after her death the Frida Kahlo Museum opened in her family home supported by funds from Diego Rivera.
