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Frida Kahlo Biography, Education, Career, Personal Life, Husband

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Ludwig van Beethoven Biography, Education, Career, Personal Life Classical Music has seen extremely skilled and talented musicians grace the art with great compositions. One such remarkable composer was Ludwig van Beethoven from Germany. His compositions have been celebrated and marked heights of classical excellence. How well do you know the great Ludwig van Beethoven? This article looks into his biography taking the reader into a quick glimpse of what his life was like. Age and Place of Birth The German composer was born on 17th December in 1770. His parents Johann and Maria Magdalena van Beethoven were not so different from other parents who had a special vested interest in what career path their child would take. In this manner, his father was particularly interested in making a great composer out of Ludwig in the footsteps of the great Mozart. Ludwig van Beethoven Career Journey Luckily, Ludwig was equally charged up to be a composer and was set for an exhilarating career. His earliest recorded piece from 1782 when he was just twelve years old is a set of nine piano variations. At the age of twenty-two, he relocated to Vienna where his compositions went through immense development and he got deeply engrossed in the Art. In Vienna, Ludwig met some of the most influential composers like Australian composer, Joseph Haydn who has often been pitted against Mozart in creativity. Most people, however, still hold that Mozart was greater. What do you think? Some of Ludwig’s pieces included the 1802 Piano Sonata No. 14 ('Moonlight'), the 1804 Eroica, the 1824 Choral, the 1825 Late Quartets, Waldstein and Apassionata sonatas, and Fidelio. Ludwig composed complex pieces that would sometimes be dedicated to people close to him. Ludwig van Beethoven Personal Life His love and earnestness for Music were heavily borrowed from his grandfather who was a bandmaster and a singer. He had a brother who had a son named Karl van Beethoven. Karl was later on left under Ludwig’s care as he had no children of his own. After having to take on the responsibility to take care of his family aged nineteen, Ludwig did not grow to marry nor have children. However, he had a confidante named Eleonore von Breuning and a mother figure named Helene von Breuning. Ludwig would give her children piano lessons when he could. At the age of fifty-seven, Ludwig passed on as a result of an illness propelled by alcohol use, cirrhosis, pneumonia, and hepatitis. Real Name Ludwig van Beethoven Age 57 (As of his death) Nationality German Place of Birth Germany Birth Sign Sagittarius Year of Birth 1770 Religion N/A Spouse None Children None Profession/Career Composer Net Worth $21 million

Art has and always will hold a special place in society allowing for the deepest expressions of oneself. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist whose works are incredibly iconic and represented many aspects of society, a prominent one being some of the earliest Feminist pieces. Despite a tumultuous, Frida Kahlo is a legend whose story remains told around the world. This article looks into her life story and the times of the feminist icon.

Frida Kahlo Age and Place of Birth

She was born on 6th July 1907 in Mexico City and named Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón.

Frida Kahlo Education Background

She was a student at the National Preparatory School beginning in 1922. 

Frida Kahlo Career Journey

Her career was greatly influenced by her personal life experiences. Frida was involved in a grisly road accident with her friend Alejandro Gómez Arias leaving her greatly injured. After this period, she went on to create self-portraits that were identifiable by her portrayal of her eyebrows that would come close to touching. 

Kahlo was a member of the Young Communist League and the Mexican Communist Party as her art took a political path later on. She was able to showcase her work in several galleries including the New York City one where she got to sell around thirteen pieces, in Paris, and another in Mexico.  Her engagement in Art circles led her to meet great artists like Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp.

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Her work was so greatly impactful that she was commissioned by the Mexican government in 1941 to do portraits of five important women in the country. She was however unable to finish the project after Frida lost her father and her chronic health problems pressed on.

Some of her pieces include the 1931 Frieda and Diego Rivera, the 1932 Henry Ford Hospital, the 1939 The Suicide of Dorothy Hale and The Two Fridas, and the 1944 The Broken Column.

Frida Kahlo Personal Life 

She lived a life that was ridden with health problems from a young age. She contracted polio aged six. In 1925, on a fateful 17th day of September, she was involved in a tragic accident while on transit with a friend named Alejandro Gómez Arias. The accident hospitalized her at the Red Cross Hospital in Mexico.

Diego Rivera was her husband from 1929 after meeting seven years prior. Rivera was a political artist allied with the Communists. The two had a rough marriage that ended up in a divorce in 1939 but remarried the following year. Diego was disloyal going to the extent of sleeping with Frida’s own blood sister. This broke her heart and propelled her health problems of bronchial pneumonia and gangrene. She had three sisters named Cristina, Matilde, and Adriana.

Frida passed on on 13th July in 1954 due to pulmonary embolism leaving behind a legacy in her art. In 2002, a film on her biography was released titled Frida, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Real Name Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón
Age (As of 2021)
Nationality  Mexican
Place of Birth Mexico City
Birth Sign Cancer
Year of Birth 1907
Religion  N/A
Spouse  Diego Rivera
Children  N/A
Profession/Career Artist
Net Worth $80 million

 

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