Contemporaries

Who were Frida Kahlo's contemporaries?

Frida Kahlo lived from 1907 to 1954, between the Mexican Revolution and two world wars.

Frida Kahlo
1907–1954
Picasso
1881–1973
Georgia O'Keeffe
1887–1986
Stravinsky
1882–1971
Virginia Woolf
1882–1941
Sartre
1905–1980
Einstein
1879–1955
Marie Curie
1867–1934
Churchill
1874–1965
1870 1910 1950 1990
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Frida Kahlo's lifespan is highlighted. The other bars show some notable contemporaries.

Parallels

Meanwhile, in the same years.

A child of the revolution

Frida was a child of the Mexican Revolution. She even claimed 1910, the year it broke out, as her birth year, though she was truly born in 1907.

A new universe

After a serious bus accident, Frida began to paint in 1925, bedridden for months. A good decade earlier, Einstein had published his theory of relativity.

Pain on canvas

In 1937, Picasso painted his Guernica against the horror of the Spanish Civil War. In those same years, Frida set down her own pain in her self-portraits.

Trailblazers

Frida painted through decades when Virginia Woolf published her novels and Marie Curie kept working in her lab. Three women, three fields, the same years.

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