Cristina Kahlo y Calderon was born June 7,1908, and was the youngest daughter of the Kahlo family.
10 Facts About Cristina Kahlo
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Guillermo Cristina Kahlo, who worked as a photographer, had a previous marriage in which he had two children before his wife died.
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Cristina Kahlo was eleven months younger than Frida, and the pair were very close.
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Cristina Kahlo came from a meager background but her father, Guillermo, a photographer during the Mexican Revolution when there was hardly a market for photographs, provided for her education.
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Cristina Kahlo later married and had two children, Isolda and Antonio.
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When Frida and Diego Rivera returned to Mexico as successful painters, Cristina Kahlo acted as subject for both artists.
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Cristina Kahlo was one of Diego's favorite subjects, and he often painted her in the nude.
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Cristina Kahlo is an indirect subject of Frida's 1937 painting Memory, the Heart, a self-portrait displaying Frida with a metal rod going through an empty space in her chest.
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Cristina Kahlo appears in Rivera's Figure of Knowledge, in the Ministry of Health.
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Towards the end of Frida's life, Cristina Kahlo looked after her and made her as comfortable as possible.