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Frida Kahlo's life in brief

Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderónon on July 6, in the house of her parents, known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacan. Kahlo's mother, Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez, was of mixed Spanish and indigenous ancestry, while his father Guillermo Kahlo Kauffmann was German of Hungarian descent.

Frida always claimed to be born on , the year of the outbreak of the Mexican revolution, so that people could directly associate her with the modern Mexico.

This detail well introduces us to a singular personality, characterized since her childhood by a deep sense of independence and rebellion against ordinary social and moral habits, moved by passion and sensuality, proud of her "Mexicanidad" and cultural tradition set against the reigning Americanization: everything mixed with a peculiar sense of humour.

Her life was marked by physical suffering, started with the polio contra