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Frida Kahlo honoured with exhibition of her father's photographs
Mar 27, 2007, 18:44 GMT
the paintings of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. EPA/Ulrich Perrey
Mexico City - To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, the San Carlos National Museum in Mexico City inaugurated an exhibition with photographs taken by her father.
The German-born Carl Wilhelm Kahlo arrived in Mexico in 1891 and his photographs are thought to document expressively that time in the North American country. Forty works from several archives were brought together for the exhibition.
Curator Guadalupe Ruiz said the show includes portraits of the three-year-old Frida, as well as pictures of Mexican society at the beginning of the 20th century.
'We did not want to focus that much on Frida, in order to show her father's own worth as an artist,' Ruiz told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Wilhelm Kahlo became a Mexican citizen in 1894. He married his second wife Matilde Calderon and had three daughters with her, among them Frida Kahlo - the best-known Mexican artist.
Frida died in 1954, at age 47.
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