Fischer Taschenbücher: Frida Kahlo

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Frida. The artist-painter known only by her first name is as vibrant in her colorful traditional dresses as her language is bold. But she is also sensitive, damaged, and ill. A bus accident at 18 plunged her into constant physical suffering. Since then, Frida Kahlo has lived in a "conflict between a dead Frida and a living Frida," an excessively human duality that Hayden Herrera presents in this intimate and well-documented biography. A rebellious young student at the National Preparatory School in Mexico, and later a communist activist, she mingled with many muralists and revolutionary artists. She created a unique art that mirrored her life, which garnered admiration from Pablo Picasso, Juan Miro, and Wassily Kandinsky. Through numerous letters and excerpts from her diary, we also discover that she was friends with Nelson Rockefeller, Tina Modotti, and André Breton, and that she experienced her romantic dramas with Trotsky and Nickolas Muray under the irreplaceable and mystical shadow of Diego Rivera. Sixty years after her passing, the story of this woman with overflowing humor and imagination remains as extraordinary and moving as her legend and her pictorial universe.