Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
1929 - 1954
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo  
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were married for 24 years before Frida Kahlo died aged 47.

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Mexican Painter Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón on 6th July, 1907 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Coyoacan (The Blue House) and passed away on 14th Jul 1954 Coyoacan, Mexico aged 47. She is most remembered for Her surrealist self-portraits. Her zodiac sign is Cancer.

Mexican Artist Diego Rivera was born Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez on 13th December, 1886 in Guanajuato City, Mexico and passed away on 24th Nov 1957 Mexico City, Mexico aged 70. He is most remembered for Man at the Crossroads. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius.

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Relationship Statistics

StatusDurationLength
Dating1929 - 21st Aug 1929 7 months, 22 days
Married21st Aug 1929 - Jul 1954 24 years, 10 months
Total 1929 - Jul 1954 25 years, 6 months


At one of photographer Tina Modotti's parties in June 1928, Kahlo was introduced to Diego Rivera. They had met briefly in 1922 when he was painting a mural at her school. Shortly after their introduction in 1928, Kahlo asked him to judge whether her paintings showed enough talent for her to pursue a career as an artist.
Kahlo soon began a relationship with Rivera, who was 20 years her senior and had two common-law wives. Kahlo and Rivera were married in a civil ceremony at the town hall of Coyoacán on 21 August 1929. Her mother opposed the marriage, and both parents referred to it as a "marriage between an elephant and a dove", referring to the couple's differences in size; Rivera was tall and overweight while Kahlo was petite and fragile. Regardless, her father approved of Rivera, who was wealthy and therefore able to support Kahlo, who could not work and had to receive expensive medical treatment. The wedding was reported by the Mexican and international press, and the marriage was subject to constant media attention in Mexico in the following years, with articles referring to the couple as simply "Diego and Frida".
Soon after the marriage, in late 1929, Kahlo and Rivera moved to Cuernavaca in the rural state of Morelos, where he had been commissioned to paint murals for the Palace of Cortés. Around the same time, she resigned her membership of the PCM in support of Rivera, who had been expelled shortly before the marriage for his support of the leftist opposition movement within the Third International.
Though they divorced once and injured each other with numerous affairs, they could not stay apart for long.
Frida idolized Diego and pampered him, even filling his bath with toys while bathing him.
Diego wrote in his autobiography, "Too late, I realized the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida."
When Kahlo passed away in 1954, Diego`s friends said he was a soul cut in two. He would die 3 years later.

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Relationship Timeline

1954 - Breakup

8th December, 1940 - Marriage

1939 - Divorce

21st August, 1929 - Marriage

1929 - Hookup

Couple Comparison

Name
Frida Kahlo
Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo
Diego Rivera
Age (at start of relationship)
21
42
Height
Female
5' 3" (160 cm)
Male
6' 1" (185 cm)
Zodiac
Cancer
Sagittarius
Occupation
Painter
Artist
Hair Color
Black
Black
Eye Color
Brown - Dark
Black
Nationality
Mexican
Mexican
Religion
Atheist
Atheist

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