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Façade of the house. The Frida Kahlo Museum (Spanish: Museo Frida Kahlo), also known as the Blue House (La Casa Azul) for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It is in the Colonia del Carmen neighborhood of Coyoacán in Mexico City.
In 1962, Dolores Olmedo acquired a property at La Noria, Xochimilco in southern Mexico City, which she would later convert into the museum named after herself in 1994.. Donating her entire collection of art including pre-Hispanic, colonial, folk, modern and contemporary art, the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum hosts the greatest collection of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Angelina Beloff ar
This nomination comprises three buildings of the home of the artist couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera who lived here in the 1930s, and Frida's father Guillermo Kahlo. The complex was designed by the architect Juan O'Gorman who paid particular attention to the natural light in the painter's study.
The Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum is a museum and arts center in Mexico City, located in the San Pablo de Tepetlapa neighborhood of Coyoacán, 10 minutes by car from the Frida Kahlo Museum, as well as from the tourist neighborhood of this district.
Born in 1907 in Mexico City — where her “Blue House” remains open for visitors — Kahlo used her own personal experiences as a source of inspiration for her art.
Back in Mexico City, Kahlo and Rivera moved into a new house in the wealthy neighborhood of San Ángel. [202] Commissioned from Le Corbusier 's student Juan O'Gorman , it consisted of two sections joined by a bridge; Kahlo's was painted blue and Rivera's pink and white. [ 203 ]
Altar to Dolores Olmedo at the Dolores Olmedo Museum for Day of the Dead.. María de los Dolores Olmedo y Patiño Suarez (December 14, 1908 – July 26, 2002; Mexico City) was a Mexican businesswoman, philanthropist and musician, better known for her friendship with the Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera; she appeared in some of his paintings. [1]
Diego Rivera, a contemporary of O'Gorman, impressed with the design of the Cecil O'Gorman House, commissioned the architect to design a home for him and Frida Kahlo on an adjacent plot (O'Gorman and Kahlo had been friends since high school in Coyoacan). [11] The house was built in a similar functionalist style from 1931 to 1932.