Frida kahlo biography livre gospel

1891

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

He finds employment at a fashionable jewelry store in Mexico City that is owned by German immigrant friends.

Guillermo Kahlo marries Maria Cardena. [He has three girls with her, the second one dies days after her birth and Maria herself dies following the birth of their third infant, leaving Guillermo alone with his two daughters, Maria Luisa (b. 1894) and Margarita (b.1898).]

On the very night of Maria's death, Guillermo asked for the hand of Frida's mother, Matilde Calderon, a coworker at the jewelry store.

1898

Guillermo Kahlo marries Frida's mother, Matilde Calderon y Gonzales, a native born Mexican o