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  Frida Kahlo Story

Frida Kahlo in Baden-Baden

12/31/2019

 
ALL 123 FRIDA KAHLO PAINTINGS IN THE COLLECTION AND ON THIS WEB-SITE ARE LICENSED REPLICAS: BY © BANCO DE MÉXICO DIEGO RIVERA & FRIDA KAHLO MUSEUMS TRUST / VG BILD-KUNST, BONN 2008.
BildFrida Kahlo, Coyoacan, 1929, Coyoacan.










BildVery rare Frida photo: Frida Kahlo, Coyoacan, 1929
Photo: Frida Kaho, 1929, Coyoacan. Photograph: Guillermo Kahlo, her father.
Frida wrote on the photo: 1929 - 19 years, but she
was born in 1907, she was in reality 22 years old. She changed her birthdate from 1907 to 1910, the year of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.

These and 200 more photos are part of our exhibition.  We are happy to share them with our Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund visitors, all the Frida Kahlo fans, with our friends and with you.

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Frida Kahlo with Rebozo Toni Frissell, 1937 Photograph © The Frissell Collection, Library of Congress.
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Visitors of our exhibition in USA/San Diego

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July 6th: Frida Kahlo “My Birth”

7/6/2016

 
Bild#34: Frida Kahlo, My Birth, 1932,
July 6th of 110 years ago, Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón was born.

Over time she dropped the “e” from the name her German father gave her, and today Frida Kahlo is the most famous woman artist of all times, recognized, loved by millions around the world; an inspirations to many of us.

Not tall (5’2” or 158 cm), not a classical beauty, her walk impaired by polio at the age of 6; she created her own unique image, staged herself in such a way that today she is recognized not only as an artist but as a fashion icon as well.
Already as a teenager she claimed to be born in 1910, the year of the Mexican revolution, and practically making herself the youngest of her 3 sisters including Cristina, her younger and prettier sister.
At the age of 25 she painted one of her most shocking paintings: “My Birth”, a small format oil on metal, painted in retablo-style.

This small painting shows how Frida used the retablo (or votive) style to bring her powerful message across. Votive paintings have usually three elements:
  • the scene of the accident that was supposed to happen,
  • the written description of the accident, and the grace to the saint who saved the person from the accident,
  • the image of the holy saviour.
In “My BIrth”  Frida paints only two elements of the three of the votive style: the written thanksgiving to the Madonna at the end of her painting is not written; here Frida indicates that she can’t give thanks to the Madonna as the accident did happen: she was born and the Madonna weeps as she could not stop the “accident” (Frida’s birth) from happening.

Some believe that the imagery of “My Birth” is inspired by an Aztec sculpture Frida had at home representing Tlazolteotl, the Goddess of fertility and midwives, the mother of the Warrior.

“My Birth” belongs to the pop star Madonna who claims that those who do not like this painting are not her friends.

Happy Birthday Frida, we love this and the rest of your paintings!

About the photo: 
Right: #34: Frida Kahlo, My Birth, 1932, 
Oil on metal, 30,5 x 35 cm, Original is in the Private Collection of Madonna. 
Licensed replica by ©Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008. 
Left: Copy of Tlazolteotl – Aztec Goddess of Fertility and Midwives.



Fridas photos - footsteps in Mexico City

5/1/2015

 
We are again following Fridas footsteps in Mexico City in preparation of our exhibition Frida's Photos which will open in Baden-Baden on June 27th 2015. 

"Who wants to understand Frida, must understand Mexico".

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Detroit

3/17/2015

 
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, about 1932, Detroit. Photografer: unknown
"High society here turns me off and I feel bit of rage against all these rich guys here, since I have seen thousands of people in the most terrible misery,"   Kahlo wrote in 1932 about her time in Detroit.

BildLicensed replica: ©Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008
Painting Nr. 26, Frida Kahlo: 
Display Window in a Street of Detroit 1931
Oil on metal, 30,3 x 38,2 cm
Collection Mr and Mrs Abel Holtz
Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, Florida, USA

This colorful painting was painted by Frida as a memory of her stay in Detroit.
The painting is dated "1931" but in 1931 Frida was in New York not in Detroit. She moved to Detroit with Diego Rivera in 1932. She may have started the painting in New York and then finished it in Detroit. 

Frida's friend, the photographer Lucienne Bloch, recalls being with Frida in New York when they saw the display window that inspired the painting.  
On the other hand,  Lucienne Bloch remember walking with Frida around the poorer sections of Detroit, and walking  past a closed store that displayed the 4th of July theme.

BildImpression of the painting at the latest exhibition of the Frida Kahlo collection by Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund. All paintings are: Licensed replica: ©Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008
This painting seems to be a simple "still life" composition of objects in a shop window, but it looks like  a collection of toys for the child she desired to have and never had.
However, some critics believe the theme is perhaps an allegory of the United States. In the background she seems to indicate that the country is still "under construction" and the objects in the store window are just a façade for distraction. Frida never explained this painting and many interpretations are possible.

The lion and horse in the painting very closely resemble ceramic and terracotta figures of  Frida's personal collection. 

The inscription in the lower right corner reads:  "Display window in a street of Detroit".


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Frida Kahlo, 1932, Detroit. Photographer unknown.

Marxism will give health to the sick, ca. 1954

2/24/2015

 
Frida Kahlo: Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick, ca. 1954
Oil on masonite, 76 x 61 cm, the original is in Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico-City, Mexico
Licensed replica: ©Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008.

Photos taken by Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier, Germany

From March 17 to October 18 2013, the replica "Marxism will give health to the sick" was on loan to the Stadtmuseum in Trier and was exhibited in the Stadtmuseum for the exhibition: Karl Marx: the Icon, Cult paintings and Paintings of a cult figure, commemorating 130 years from the death of Karl Marx, who was born in the city of Trier.

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Frida Kahlo: My Dress Hangs There, 1933

2/24/2015

 
BildLicensed replica: ©Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008
Frida Kahlo: My Dress Hangs There, 1933

Oil and Collage on masonite, 46 x 50 cm, Original; FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico

After more than three years in America, Frida wanted desperately to return to Mexico. Diego, however, remained fascinated by the country and did not want to leave. Out of the conflict came this painting. This painting is atypical of Frida’s style; the composition is diffuse with many objects and symbols. Usually Frida Kahlo’s paintings have one central figure, mainly herself. 

This painting represents a portrait of American capitalism and contradictions as Frida saw them in 1933.  It portrays a modern American industrial society which treats people like machines. Frida takes an opposite view to her husband, who was expressing his approval of industrial progress in a mural in the Rockefeller Center. 

BildFrida Kahlo, about 1934, Coyoacan, Photographer unknown
Already in 1933, Frida Kahlo illustrates the importance of Wall Street by painting the shares evolution by months over the years from 1931 to 1933; the importance of the oil companies (Standard Oil on the right hand side of the painting); the black telephone cable which, like a spider web, connects everything and everyone.

What is missing from this painting is the focal point of nearly all Frida's paintings…herself. Instead, Frida's Tehuana dress hangs empty and alone, this may be her way of saying "I may be in America but only my dress hangs there…my heart is in Mexico." 

This paintings is made in a mixed mode: oil on wood with collage and tempera.

Moses, or Birth of the Hero

1/13/2015

 
BildFrida Kahlo gets the award for her painting Moses. Photographer: unknown, 1945
Painting Nr. 104, Frida Kahlo, Moses, 1945

Oil on masonite, 61 x 75,6 cm, Private collection, Houston, TX
In a written description of this painting, Frida refers to it as "Moses, or Birth of the Hero". For this work Frida was awarded second prize at the annual art exhibition in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico. 

The inspiration for this painting was provided by Sigmund Freud's book, "Moses the Man and Monotheistic Religion". She was fascinated by the book and painted the picture after finishing the book. This painting was done in the style of a miniature mural. The central figure of the abandoned baby Moses closely resembles Diego, and wears, like Diego in other paintings, the third eye of wisdom on his forehead. The birth is beneath a life giving sun flanked by gods, heroes, common humanity, and the all-embracing hands of death. In the foreground a conch spurting fluid into a concave shell is, Frida said, a symbol of love. Fresh, leafy branches sprouting from dead tree trunks refer to the life/death cycle that appears in many of Frida's paintings.

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# 104: Frida Kahlo, Moses, 1945; Licensed replica © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008

Frida Kahlo, her students and  "La rosita"

1/7/2015

 
BildKunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund, Frida Kahlo, La Rosita; Photographer: unknown
1943: … Frida was anxious to give her students a chance to get started in mural art themselves. In the middle of 1943 she obtained permission for her students to decorate the wall of a tavern, the Pulqueria La Rosita, located a short distance from the Casa Azul. Two years later, Frida arranged a second mural commission for her students: the walls of a laundry facility, one of the public works of the Lazaro Cardenas administration. At Frida's urging, her students participated in exhibitions, where the political content of their work sometimes caused them trouble with the public, but never with Diego and Frida. The couple was also supportive when "Los Fridos" joined other students to found the Revolutionary Young Artists, a group that organized exhibitions in public parks and gardens so that their artwork could be seen by workers and the poor.


Notwithstanding the physical and spiritual closeness of Frida and her students over the years, not one of them claims to have ever seen her paint. She brought out her canvases from the studio when the class had critiques, or she would invite the students to come inside and see her work in progress. But when she painted, she worked in isolation.

See more at: http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.fridabrushanguish.4d.htm

Here some impressions about the work and the final celebration of that project:  
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Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund, Frida Kahlo, La Rosita; Photographer: unknown
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Frida Kahlo and her students 1943: Photographer unknown
La Rosita - some years later ….
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Photographer of this photo serie: 1943, unknown
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