Who were Frida Kahlo's contemporaries?
Who lived at the same time as Frida Kahlo? Between 1907 and 1954, not only fellow painters, but writers, thinkers and scientists of the first rank.
The highlighted column is Frida Kahlo's life. Each bar is someone whose own life overlapped it.
Meanwhile, in the same years.
Born of 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
A bus accident turned Frida to painting in 1925. By then, Einstein had already rewritten space, time and gravity.
The century's wounds
Frida's lifetime held two world wars. In 1937, Picasso painted Guernica while she was making some of her boldest self-portraits.
Women who would not vanish
Frida outlived Virginia Woolf, and shared her restless half-century with Marie Curie, women who, like her, reshaped their fields.
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