Guillermo Kahlo

Guillermo Kahlo (1871–1941) was a Mexican photographer and father of the (more famous) artist Frida Kahlo, who painted his portrait.

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1871 - 1941 - Mexican - Photographer - Frida Kahlo

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Kahlo's parents were Hungarian Jews (originally from Arad, now Romania) who moved to Germany. He was educated at the University of Nuremburg. His father paid for him to travel to Mexico by ship in 1891 since he did not get on with his father's second wife after his mother died and he never returned. In Mexico, he changed his name from Willem to Guillermo.

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Hungarian - Jews - Arad - Romania - Germany - Nuremburg - Mexico - 1891

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In 1901 he set up a photographic studio, working for Mexican magazines such as El Mundo Ilustrado and Semanario Ilustrado. He was commissioned by the government to do architectural photographs, probably his best work. He also took photographs of Mexico churchs with other photographers for a six-volume survey in the 1920s.

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1901 - 1920s

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He married in 1894, but his first wife died in childbirth in 1898. Frieda (later to be known as Frida Kahlo) was born in 1904 to Matilde Calderón, daughter of the photographer Antonio Calderón.

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1894 - 1898 - Frida Kahlo - 1904 - Antonio Calderón

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