How tall is Frida Kahlo?

Frida Kahlo's listed height was 160 cm (5'3"). She was taller than about 99% of women in Mexico.

Where 160 cm sits among women in Mexico

Taller than about 99% of women in Mexico born in 1907 (average 145.7 cm).

About Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo, whose full name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, was a Mexican painter known for her portraits, self-portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. She was born on 6 July 1907 in Coyoacán, to a German father and a mestiza mother of Purépecha descent. She spent most of her life at La Casa Azul, her family home, which is now the Frida Kahlo Museum.

Kahlo contracted polio in 1913 and was a promising student headed for medical school until a bus accident at the age of 18 caused her lifelong pain and medical problems. During her recovery she returned to art. She joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 and married the artist Diego Rivera in 1929. André Breton arranged her first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1938, followed by another in Paris in 1939.

Kahlo stood a listed 160 cm (5'3"). She employed a folk art style to explore identity, class and race in Mexican society. Her 1940 self-portrait The Dream (The Bed) holds the record for the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctioned, at $54.7 million. She died on 13 July 1954.

Frequently asked

How tall is Frida Kahlo in feet and inches? Frida Kahlo was 5'3" tall, which is 160 cm, 63 inches or 1.60 m.

Is Frida Kahlo tall for women in Mexico? At 160 cm she was taller than about 99% of women in Mexico born in 1907, whose average height is 145.7 cm.

Sources

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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