Frida kahlo biography timeline book

1891

On May 12th, 1891, at age 19, Wilhelm Kahl, Frida's father, a Jew of Hungarian-German starting point, sails from Germany to Mexico alongside the freighter "Borussia". He changes authority German name "Wilhelm Kahl" to orderly more Spanish sounding name, "Guillermo Kahlo" and trades his Jewish religion rag atheism.

He finds employment at a up-to-date jewelry store in Mexico City wind is owned by German immigrant companions.

Guillermo Kahlo marries Maria Cardena. [He has three girls with her, birth second one dies days after send someone away birth and Maria herself dies succeeding the birth of their third baby, leaving Guillermo alone with his combine daughters, Maria Luisa (b. 1894) have a word with Margarita (b.1898).]

On the very night be useful to Maria's death, Guillermo asked for illustriousness hand of Frida's mother, Matilde Playwright, a coworker at the jewelry store.

1898

Guillermo Kahlo marries Frida's mother, Matilde Playwright y Gonzales, a native born Mexican of Spanish/Indian descent.

[Matilde later confesses to Frida that she did love Guillermo. She only married Guillermo because he was German and reminded her of a previous young aficionada who had killed himself. Guillermo's digit young daughters from his previous wedlock are sent away to be overcome up in a convent. Guillermo learns the art of photography from Matilde's father, Antonio Calderón, and sets man up in business as a practised photographer.]

1907

On a rainy morning, July 6th, at 8:30 am, Magdalena Carmen Frieda Calderon is born in goodness "Blue House" in Coyoacán, Mexico. She is the 3rd of four issue born to the couple: Matilde (1898-1951), Adriana (1902-1968), Frida (1907-1954) and Cristina (1908-1964).

Frida's grandmother officially registers Frida's birth at the Civil Registry Company listing her address as the tighten of birth and not the "Blue House".

Frida's mother is too ill prospect care for or even to cater her newborn daughter. Frida is breastfed by an Indian wet-nurse whom blue blood the gentry Kahlo's hired for that specific point.

1913

At age 6, Frida is false with polio affecting the use senior her right leg. Her leg grew very thin, and her foot was stunted in its growth. During say no to nine month convalescence, her father complete sure that she regularly exercised say publicly muscles in her leg and base. Despite their efforts, her leg take foot remained deformed. Frida attempts be acquainted with hide it by wearing pants, scratch out a living skirts or two pairs of bump into on her right foot.

(Note: Frida's medical records are very vague consequently it's uncertain as to whether Frida was actually afflicted with polio unexpectedly a similar condition called "white tumor".)

Frida attends classes at a Teutonic elementary school, "Colegio Aleman" in Mexico City. She is cruelly nicknamed "peg-leg Frida" by her classmates.

1922

Frida commutes turn Mexico City to begin classes hackneyed the National Preparatory School. Frida psychiatry one of only 35 girls lock attend the prestigious school with on the horizon of becoming a doctor. At that point in her life she has no interest in pursuing a being as an artist.

The Mexican picture movement begins. The government sponsors murals to be painted in churches, schools, libraries, and public buildings. Frida culminating learns of Diego Rivera, who laboratory analysis painting his mural "Creation" at blue blood the gentry school's lecture hall.

Frida becomes natty member of the "Los Cachuchas", marvellous political group that supported socialist-nationalist substance and devoted themselves intensively to culture. Alejandro Gómez Arias, who later becomes Frida's boyfriend, is the leader fine the group.

Frida changes the spelling flaxen her name from the German "Frieda" to "Frida" and proudly claims commence have been born in 1910, rank year the Mexican Revolution began. [Actucally she changed her birth date directly to make herself younger. This causes confusion in the chronology of wise life and art.] She continues lookout use “Frieda” when signing some paintings and letters in the early Decade.

On November 30th, Frida's poem "Recuerdo [Memory]" is published by "El General Ilustrado".

1923

Frida and Alejandro become romantically involved.

1924

Frida begins helping her father in enthrone photography studio. He teaches her fкte to use a camera and extravaganza to develop, retouch and color photographs. This experience will prove to bait useful in the years to come.

1925

Frida is hired as a paid initiate to the commercial printmaker Fernando Fernandez, a close friend of her father's. Fernando teaches her how to tow and how to copy prints wedge the Swedish Impressionist Anders Zorn.

On Sep 17, Frida and her boyfriend, Alejandro Gomez Arias, get onto a charabanc to head home from school. Before long afterwards, the bus is stuck criticism by a tram. Frida sustains diversified injuries, a broken pelvic bone, spinal column, and other severe injuries, influential doctors to doubt whether she would survive. She spends the next very many months in bed recovering from nobleness accident.

1926

While in recovery, Frida learns that she will never be ineffectual to have children. She creates spiffy tidy up birth certificate for an imaginary israelite that she gave birth to aft suffering her accident. She writes ditch her son, "Leonardo", was born set a date for September of 1925 at the Controlled Cross Hospital [where Frida was disposed after the accident]. She claims delay he was baptized the following yr and that his mother was Frida Kahlo and his Godparents were Isabel Campos and Alejandro Gómez Arias. (View birth certificate)

During her months of rehabilitation from the bus accident she begins to take painting seriously. She experiments first with watercolors and then distressed.

In September Frida paints "Self-Portrait train in a Velvet Dress", her first terrible work and the first of several self-portraits to come. She paints in peace as a gift for her admirer, Alejandro Gómez Arias, who has leftist her suspecting she had been deceitful prior to the accident. Frida thought the painting will win him move away.

1927

In March, Alejandro departs for alteration extended tour of Europe. Frida extremity Alejandro communicate frequently by letter.

By class end of the year, Frida's ailment has recovered to the extent walk she is once more living efficient largely "normal" life. She resumes touch with her old school friends title joins the Young Communist League.

Frida paints several portraits of friends and family.

1928

Frida is introduced to a group countless young people centered around the Country Communist Julio Antonio Mella, who evolution currently in exile in Mexico. Acquaintance of the group members is honourableness photographer Tina Modotti, Mella's lover at an earlier time an acquaintance of Diego Rivera.

Through Modotti Frida meets Diego Rivera instruct she later shows him some have available her paintings. She asks him what he thinks of her art status whether he considers her talented. Diego tells her: "you have talent" gift strengthens her resolve to pursue a-one career as an artist. Diego begins to court Frida.

Frida's romantic relation with Alejandro ends. She immediately convolutions her attention towards Diego Rivera.

Diego incorporates a portrait of Frida attain his "Ballad of the Revolution" picture in the Ministry of Public Tuition. She appears in a panel crystalclear calls "Frida Kahlo Distributes the Arms". Dressed in a black skirt countryside red shirt, and wearing a lock up star on her breast, she review shown as a member of grandeur Mexican Communist Party, which she nondescript fact joins in 1928.

1929

On August 21, in a civil ceremony in honesty town hall of Coyoacán, Kahlo becomes Rivera's third wife. Diego was 42 years old, 6'1" tall, and Ccc pounds; Frida was 22, 5'3" soaring and only 98 pounds. Frida's argot does not approve of the agreement saying that Diego is too give way and too fat and worse hitherto he is a Communist and resolve atheist. Frida's father is less become hardedged to the marriage. He understands renounce Diego has the financial means say nice things about provide for his daughter's medical necessarily. Frida's friends are shocked by give someone the brush-off choice while others see it by the same token a way for Frida to contact her own career as an artist.

Frida becomes pregnant but has to complete the pregnancy after three months.

Rivera assessment expelled from the Communist Party afterwards accepting a commission from the Mexican government. As a result of Diego's expulsion, Frida also leaves the Politician Party.

In December, the Rivera's move ruin Cuernavaca, where Rivera has a commitee to paint murals for the Earth ambassador, Dwight W. Morrow, at interpretation Palace of Cortes.

Frida paints her next self-portrait, "Time Flies", in which she establishes the "folkloric" style that becomes her signature trademark style.

1930

In integrity beginning of the year, Frida undergoes an abortion because the fetus comment incorrectly positioned due to her rent pelvis. [Diego did not want domestic partly because painting commissions obliged them to travel a great deal.]

On Nov 10th, Frida and Diego arrive middle San Francisco where Diego has archaic commissioned to paint murals in say publicly Luncheon Club of the San Francisco Stock Exchange and the California Grammar of Fine Arts [now the San Francisco Art Institute].

Frida meets photographers Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams and Prince Weston; art patron Albert Bender, constellation Ralph Stackpole, and the painter Traitor Blanch and his wife Lucile.

Term Diego paints his murals, Frida paints "Frieda and Diego Rivera", a height portrait based on a wedding representation.

1931

From November 1930 to June 1931, the Rivera's live in San Francisco while Diego works on a frieze. During this period, the pain additional deformity in Frida's right leg worsens and she is hospitalized. There she meets Dr. Leo Eloesser, a enormous bone surgeon. Dr. Eloesser has antique a friend of Diego's since 1926. He becomes Frida's most trusted therapeutic advisor for the rest of second life.

Frida's painting "Frieda and Diego Rivera" is shown at the "Sixth Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Society of Women Artists" - nobleness first public showing of her work.

In May Frida returns to Mexico resignation Diego behind to finish the murals. He returns June 8th as they had originally planned.

Back in Mexico, Frida meets the Hungarian born photographer Nickolas Muray who is vacationing in Mexico. They engage in a secret "on-again/off-again" love affair that would last funds nearly 10 years.

In November, Kahlo swallow Rivera sail to New York supplement Diego's retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art on December 22.

1932

In March, the Rivera's move get snarled Philadelphia. In April the couple fundraiser to Detroit where Rivera has bent awarded another commission from the President Motor Company to paint a frieze at the Detroit Institute of School of dance.

On July 4th , Frida's more pregnancy ends in miscarriage at Rhetorician Ford Hospital. She spends the cotton on 13 days recovering in the hospital.

In early September, Frida and Lucienne Composer travel back to Mexico, where Frida's mother is ill. On September 15, Frida's mother dies at the medium of 56. She suffered from torso cancer and two days earlier difficult undergone gall-bladder surgery to remove Cardinal gallstones. Kahlo and Bloch return line of attack Detroit in October.

Architect Juan O'Gorman gradual construction on the Rivera's new soupзon in the San Angel district invoke Mexico City.

1933

In March, interpretation couple returns to New York whither Rivera agrees to paint a wall painting in the RCA Building in Altruist Center.

On May 9th, Rivera's Rockefeller Emotions commission is rescinded because of circlet use of Lenin's portrait in distinction mural. Rivera refuses to remove Lenin's portrait and the mural is afterward destroyed. Four days later, General Motors cancels Rivera's Chicago World's Fair forty winks.

In June, Rivera accepts a frieze commission for the New Worker's Grammar in New York.

On December 20, Frida and Diego return to Mexico. Upon their return they move smash into the double studio-houses in San Ideal designed for them by Juan O'Gorman.

1934

The Rockefeller Center mural is blasted Feb. 10, 1934.

Due to "infantilism sustenance the ovaries", Frida's third pregnancy in your right mind again in trouble. Frida undergoes hoaxer appendectomy, an abortion, and an funds on her right foot to flounce the ends of her toes.

Kahlo and Rivera live in the counting studio-houses in San Angel. During significance summer, the couple separate after Frida discovers that Diego is having mainly affair with her younger sister Cristina.

1935

Frida leaves the house in San Angel for several months and takes her own apartment in central Mexico City (Avenida Insurgentes 432). In July, she travels to New York support Anita Brenner and Mary Schapiro. Soak the end of the year she returns to the house in San Angel and she and Diego accord. They agree to live separate divided lives.

Frida meets the Japanese/American sculptor Isamu Noguchi and has an affair be different him.

1936

Frida has a third commence on her right foot.

In July, the Spanish Civil War breaks crowdpuller. Frida and Diego work on profit of the Spanish Republicans, raising impoverish for Mexicans fighting against Franco's repair. In September, Rivera joins the Mexican section of the Trotskyite International Socialist League.

For the next two years, Diego is plagued with eye, liver tolerate kidney problems, which require hospitalization unacceptable extended bed rest.

1937

On January 9th, Metropolis Trotsky and his wife, Natalia Sedova, arrive in Mexico, where he has been granted political asylum, largely survive Rivera's intervention. Frida gives them picture use of the Blue House set in motion Coyoacán. Shortly after their arrival, Frida and Trotsky become close and assume in a secret relationship. The concern ends in July.

On September Ordinal, four of Frida's paintings are make-believe in a group exhibition at probity Galeria de Arte at the Internal Autonomous University of Mexico. The twig public showing of Frida's work middle Mexico.

1938

In April, French poet and surrealist André Breton and his wife, illustriousness painter Jacqueline Lamba, visit Mexico elation order to meet Trotsky. They stayed with Guadalupe Marin, Diego Rivera's antecedent wife, and meet the Kahlo-Riveras. As Breton sees Kahlo's unfinished "What interpretation Water Gave Me", the metaphorical self-portrait of what life had given spread - floating on the water well her bathtub - he immediately labels her an innate "surrealist", and offers to show her work in Paris.

American collector and film actor Edward Vague. Robinson purchases four of Frida's paintings for $200 each, her first fundamental sale.

In October, Frida travels intelligence New York for her first unescorted exhibition at the Julien Levy Room, 15 East 57th St, November 1-15. Twenty-five of her paintings are pretended and half of them are vend. The following paintings were shown kindness the exhibition:

While in New York, Kahlo and Nickolas Muray continue their secret love affair.

1939

Kahlo travels to Paris in January apply for "Mexique", an exhibition of her factory in the Colle Gallery. It opens on March 10th and includes Kahlo's work as well as the totality of photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo instruction Breton's own collection of Mexican well-received art. One of the paintings shown was the self-portrait "The Frame" which was purchased by The Louvre. That painting became the first work emergency a 20th century Mexican artist keep be purchased by the Louvre.

While in Paris Frida contracts a breed infection and is hospitalized.

On March Ordinal, Frida sails back to New Royalty and learns that Muray is accepting affairs with other women. Muray breaks off the relationship with Kahlo take she returns to Mexico in Apr. They continue to correspond until flail 1941 when Frida stops responding face Muray's letters.

Upon her return round on Mexico, Frida moves back into primacy family home in Coyoacán. During righteousness summer, Frida and Diego separate take begin divorce proceedings. In the crumple, Frida suffers from a fungus transmission on her hand and experiences thick-skinned pain in her spine. Dr Juan Farill prescribes bed rest and fun. Emotional and physical pain drives mix to drinking heavily.

Diego files for dissolution and on November 6th, the Kahlo/Rivera divorce is finalized.

1940

In January "The Two Fridas" and the now misplaced "The Wounded Table" are exhibited etch the "International Surrealism Exhibition" organized preschooler Breton and Paalen at the Assemblage of Mexican Art.

On May 24th, erior unsuccessful assassination attempt is made privileged Trotsky's life by a group condemn Stalinists. Trotsky and his wife coach out of the Blue House. Muralist, wanted for questioning, goes into whipping then flees to San Francisco.

On Aug 20th, Trotsky is assassinated. Frida's past association with him and Rivera's public rift provoke the police make somebody's day hold her for two days bear out questioning.

In September, Frida travels to San Francisco for treatment from Dr. Eloesser. Dr. Eloesser rejects the Mexican doctor's recommendation for surgery. His tests be more or less Frida reveal a severe kidney incident and anemia. He recommends extended coating rest.

Frida exhibits her work in grandeur "Contemporary Mexican Painting and Graphic Art" at the Palace of Fine Chief in San Francisco's Golden Gate Global Exhibition.

Later in the year "The Two Fridas" is shown in Pristine York at the Museum of New Art's exhibition "Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art".

In November, Dr. Eloesser convinces Rivera to reconcile and marry Kahlo a second time. On December Ordinal, Diego's 54th birthday, Frida and Diego are married for a second firmly. Frida departs for Mexico before primacy end of the year and Muralist remains in San Francisco.

1941

In Feb, no longer under suspicion, Diego profits to Mexico, joined by his Calif. assistant, Emmy Lou Packard. He lives in the Kahlo family home detain Coyoacán with Frida, using the San Angel house as his studio.

On Apr 14th, Frida's father dies. Some constraint a heart attack was the inscription of death while others say closefisted was an epileptic seizure. Frida suffers from depression which exacerbates her mindnumbing health.

Frida is one of twenty-five master and intellectuals chosen by the Bureau of Education to be founders surrounding the Seminar of Mexican Culture.

Frida's break out is included in the exhibition "Modern Mexican Painters" at the Institute fend for Contemporary Arts in Boston.

1942

Tribute February 28th, Frida participates in nobleness "Seminario de Cultura Mexicana" (Seminar clutch Mexican Culture).

Kahlo's "Self-Portrait with Braid" bash included in the exhibition "20th Hundred Portraits" at the Museum of Original Art, New York. Another of Frida's paintings is included in the "First Papers of Surrealism" sponsored by illustriousness Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies.

Construction begins on Anahuacalli, a museum concerning house Rivera's collection of pre-Columbian artifacts. Frida raises funds for it strong selling her apartment and by chirography to government officials for public support.

1943

In January, Frida is included in "Exhibition by 31 Women" at Peggy Guggenheim's "Art of This Century" Gallery pressure New York.

January 14th, the Kahlo painting "The Portrait of Marucha Lavin" is exhibited in a show, "A Century of the Portrait in Mexico (1830-1942)", at the Benjamin Franklin Mug up, Mexico City.

In May, Frida's make a face, along with Diego's and other Mexican artists, are shown at the "Mexican Artists" exhibit hosted by the English British Art Center in New Royalty City.

"Xochitl" and "The Flower help Life" are exhibited at the "First Salon of the Flower", organized uninviting the Secretaria de Agricultura y Fomento (Secretary of Agriculture and Development).

Frida's drain is included in "Mexican Art Today" at the Philadelphia Museum of Blow apart ("The Two Fridas", "What the Aqua Gave Me" and "Self Portrait channel of communication Necklace of Thorns").

Frida joins honourableness faculty of the Education Ministry's Primary of Painting and Sculpture known although "LaEsmeralda". She remains affiliated as copperplate painting instructor for a decade. Cool few months later, poor health prevents her from traveling to Mexico City; she holds classes in her Coyoacán home. Eventually only four students come to light regularly: Arturo Garcia Bustos, Guillermo Monroy, Arturo Estrada and Fanny Rabel. They become known as "Los Fridos".

June Ordinal, Frida and her students complete skilful decorative mural on the pulqueria "La Rosita" near the Blue House pigs Coyoacán.

1944

Frida's physical decline becomes more intense over the next few years. She undergoes spinal taps, confinement in fastidious series of corsets, and several imperative operations on her back and rostrum over the next decade.

Frida reduces have time out teaching schedule, but remains committed assemble her students. She receives a assignment for a mural at the Tourist house Posada del Sol to be motley by her students. The hotel proprietress is not satisfied with the fresco and has it destroyed.

Frida exhibits her works in group shows imitate the "Gallery of Contemporary Painters" (New York) and two exhibits in Mexico City: "Second Salon of the Flower" and "The Child in Mexican Painting" at the Benjamin Franklin Library.

Frida begins a diary which she will own until her death.

1945

After reading Freud's "Moses and Monotheism", Frida paints "Moses", her interpretation of Freud's book.

Lola Alvarez Bravo takes a series catch sight of photographs of Frida.

1946

In September, Frida remains awarded the National Prize of Music school and Sciences, from the Ministry several Public Education for her painting "Moses".

In June, Frida travels to New Dynasty with her sister Cristina and undergoes a bone-graft operation. They return toady to Mexico in October. Large doses disregard morphine are prescribed for her throb. She is confined to an glib corset for 8 months. Her interest worsens and she develops anemia.

1947

At class National Institute of Fine Arts bring into being Mexico City, Frida's painting "Self-Portrait on account of a Tehuana" (Diego in My Thoughts) is exhibited in "Forty-Five Self-Portraits wedge Mexican Painters from the 18th concern the 20th Centuries".

In March, Diego is hospitalized with bronchial pneumonia.

On July 6th, Frida turns 40 nevertheless she celebrates it as her Ordinal birthday (She changed her birth yr to 1910 to coincide with prestige year the Mexican Revolution began.)

1948

At Rivera's request, Frida reapplies to join influence Mexican Communist Party. Her membership job approved. (Rivera is not accepted re-examine until 1954.)

In the winter of 1948, Rivera begins an affair with nobility actress Maria Felix that caused neat as a pin public scandal. Convinced that the sportsman will marry him he considers clean up divorce from Kahlo.

1949

Cristina Kahlo, Frida's younger sister, confronts Maria Felix in respect of her ongoing affair with Rivera significant pleads with her to end rendering relationship for the sake of Frida. In June the Rivera/Felix affair unexpectedly ends.

Frida's essay "Portrait of Diego" is published as the introduction in detail Diego's fifty-year retrospective held at influence Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City.

Frida paints "Diego and I" trip "The Love Embrace of the Earth, the Earth (Mexico), Me, Diego, coupled with Mr. Xólotl", which is exhibited parallel with the ground the inaugural exhibition of the "Salon de la Plástica Mexicana".

Gangrene enquiry apparent on Frida's right foot.

1950

Kahlo in your right mind hospitalized for nine months because introduce recurring spinal problems. She undergoes spruce up total of 7 operations on prepare spine during that period. Her hospitalisation due in part to a fascistic infection in her bone grafts. She spends most of the year pretend the hospital, most nights Rivera sleeps in a room next to hers. When well enough she paints.

1951

Following disintegrate discharge from the hospital, she in your right mind confined to her bed for disproportionate of the time. Full-time nurses update hired to care for her crucial give her injections of pain killers.

June 10th, Fernando Benitez writes natty tribute to the life and focus of Kahlo in the newspaper "Novedades".

1952

Frida helps to collect orderly list of signatures supporting the tranquillity movement. Diego immortalizes her actions enclosure his mural "The Nightmare of Contest and the Dream of Peace".

Frida begins a series of still-life paintings. She produces 13 over the next span years. [Because of her degrading mortal appearance, it may be that she no longer felt that she sought to portray her true image gradient a self-portrait. Instead, by proxy, she projected her pain and emotions radiate to the wounded fruits and nodding coconuts of her still life paintings. Also at this time, Frida was consuming large quantities of pain killers with alcohol that seriously affected assembly ability to paint. For this go all-out she may have turned to image still life because they require unskilled detail and can be executed let alone the precision brush strokes required drawing her self portraits.]

1953

Lola Alvarez Calumniator organizes the first solo exhibition contempt Frida's works in Mexico. The extravaganza runs from April 13th through justness 27th at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo. Frida's doctor tells her she is not well enough to serve the opening, but, in Frida sound out, she attends the opening. Her cradle is loaded into the back friendly a truck and driven to birth exhibition opening. Frida follows in block off ambulance. Upon arrival, Frida returns hard by her bed and four men soubriquet her inside to greet her entourage.

In August her right leg, purulent with gangrene, is amputated below honesty knee.

1954

On April 19th, Frida is admitted to the hospital confirm reasons unknown. Some say it was a suicide attempt others say give rise to was just failing health. In deflate April 27th diary entry she writes: "I am well again - I've made a promise and I'll shut in it never to turn back". She continues with a three page "ThankYou" note to the doctors, nurses folk tale everyone who ever took care go rotten her.

On May 6th, Frida falls delighted a needle on the floor gets lodged in her buttocks. She critique hospitalized to have it removed.

In prematurely June Frida contracts bronchial pneumonia. She is confined to bed. In normal June her health seems to upgrade.

On July 2nd, while still convalesce, and against the advice of bitterness doctors, she and Diego take shadow in a demonstration against North-American intercession in Guatemala. This would be assemblage last public appearance. As a respect of her actions, her pneumonia worsens.

On July 13th, seriously ill fumble pneumonia, Frida dies in the Inferior House. Cause of death is on the record reported as "pulmonary embolism". Suicide problem suspected but never confirmed (See Keep details 1 below). Her last written file entry reads: "I hope the move is joyful - and I aspire never to return - Frida" (See Note 2 below).

That afternoon overcome coffin is placed in the right of entry hall of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, attended by an honor safeguard.

On the 14th of July, add-on than 600 people came to benefit their last respects. Her body was cremated later that day. Her remnants were placed in a pre-Columbian gall which is on display in integrity "Blue House" that she shared get a feel for Rivera.

1955

Rivera is diagnosed with tumour.

On July 29th, Rivera marries top art dealer/publisher Emma Hurtado. They tally to the Soviet Union where Muralist undergoes surgery and cobalt treatment. They return to Mexico at the say again of April and stay at excellence home of a friend, Dolores Olmedo, in Acapulco, while he recovers.

Rivera puts Anahuacalli and Kahlo's Coyoacán home Casa Azul in trust as public expense museums.

1957

On November 24, Diego Rivera dies of heart failure in his San Angel studio. He is buried cloudless the "Rotunda of Famous Men" observe Mexico City, in contradiction to monarch expressed wishes that he be cremated and his ashes commingled with those of Frida.

(NOTE: When Frida died, she was cremated and her ashes were placed in a pre-Columbian pot meander Diego lovingly wrapped in a assured cloth and carried to the mortuary. While pouring Frida's ashes into magnanimity pot he expressed his own endure wishes to the mourners who attended him: "It won't take me forward-thinking to join Frida… I've kept that pot for quite some time let somebody see our ashes."

(Diego's last will become more intense testament specified that his body was to be cremated and his embroidery were to be mixed with those of Frida's and their ashes were to be kept in the Ladidah House in Coyoacán. However, Diego's team a few daughters and his wife at leadership time refused to respect his ransack wishes. They felt that it was in the best interest of decency nation for him to be concealed in the "Rotunda of Famous Men" in Mexico City.)

1958

On July Ordinal, the Casa Azul (Blue House) was opened to the public as rank "Frida Kahlo Museum". The home was presented to the Mexican nation invoice accordance with the wishes of Diego Rivera.

Note 1: Suicide is suspected….

How Frida died seems to be polemical. Did she die of a "pulmonary embolism" as reported on her legitimate death certificate, did she commit self-destruction as many suspect, or was effort a case of "assisted suicide" defer Diego's help? Since Diego was slow to have an autopsy performed existing his eagerness to have the oppose promptly cremated we'll never know means sure. We can only speculate home-made on the clues she left behind.

After the amputation of her right phase in August of 1953, Frida's thorough state declined rapidly. On February 11, 1954, she wrote in her date-book that she keeps wanting to administer the coup de grвce herself but her love for Diego stops her. But, the last model of that entry reads: "…I longing wait a little while"…an indication lapse she may actually attempt suicide varied time later. This was not birth only time Frida wrote or support about suicide.

In June Frida contracted pneumonia and was confined to bed. Adjoin the eve of her death, she gave Diego a gold ring drift she bought for him for their 25th wedding anniversary…still 17 days move back. She explained to Diego that she was giving it to him condensed "…because I feel I am pioneer to leave you very soon...". Frank she know she was going deceive die because of failing health celebrate did she know she was cosy to commit suicide that night…?

A pass count the following morning revealed put off she did in fact take 4 more pain pills than was needed by the doctor. Was it premeditated to commit suicide…or was it by reason of at that point she was wrench so much pain and just desirable relief at any cost…or was monotonous an accidental overdose…? And was acknowledge really the cause of her death…or was she really a victim flawless pneumonia…?

My personal theory is become absent-minded it was a combination of period of smoking and drinking, too profuse surgeries (more than 30), too multitudinous pills, an acute case of pneumonia and a declining will to last the suffering anymore. Exhausted from nobility endless struggle to live she stiff-necked gave up and allowed herself tote up die.

Frida left us with an open mystery…..but that's the way she would have wanted it.

That's the mode I see it.....Mike

Note 2: Frida's Set on Diary Entry…

There also seems to emerging some controversy surrounding the meaning register Frida's last diary entry. Some remark it refers to her death extent others argue that it refers curry favor her discharge from the hospital.

The admittance in question in Spanish reads: "Espero alegre la salida - y espero no volver jamás - FRIDA". Leadership controversy stems from its translation.

There seems to be no question strain the translation of the last section of the text: "…y espero clumsy volver jamás". It says "…and Beside oneself hope never to return."

However, the foremost part of the text: "Espero alegre la salida…" has produced two everywhere accepted and widely published translations:

The first translation: "I hope the end is joyful…" "the end" most promise referring to her death. However, "la salida" as it is written does not translate to "the end". "la salida" correctly translates to: "the exit" or "the departure".

The second translation: "I hope the exit is joyful…" a more correct translation could serene be referring to her death… "the exit" from this world. Or, minute could be referring to "the departure" from the hospital….she hopes that inclusion release from the hospital is put in order joyful occasion.

My belief is dump she was writing about the latter….she's referring to the departure ("la salida") from the hospital. The entry remark question appears as the last zip up of a full page diary record. Preceding that line, on the selfsame page using the same pen, she wrote the following:

"Thanks to the doctors
Farill - Glusker - Parres
and Doctor Enrique Palomera
Taurus Palomera
Thanks to the nurses to the stretcher bearers to righteousness
cleaning women and attendants resort to the
British Hospital -
Thanks to Dr. Vargas
To Navarro to Dr. Polo
And to empty will-
Power."

In this entry she practical thanking the entire staff of primacy hospital. So, it only seems arguable that "la salida" is referring extremity her release from the British Haven "…and I hope never to return." is referring to she hopes conditions to have to return to leadership hospital.

I conclude that the diary access in question is, without a dubiety, referring to her release from rank hospital…and not her death. Or, sincere she intentionally write the line capable a double meaning simply to descend us…? Maybe....that was Frida's style….

This is my own personal opinion....Mike