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Guillermo Kahlo
Carl Wilhelm Kahlo (26 October 1871 – 14 April 1941) was a German-Mexican photographer and father of artist Frida Kahlo, He was an ancestor of actress DulceMaría.
Life and career
Kahlo was born in Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire, the son of jeweller Jakob Heinrich Kahlo and Henriette Kaufmann.Frida Kahlomaintained that he was of Hungarian Jewish descent
He attended the University of Nuremberg. His father paid him to travel to Mexico in 1891 as he did not get on with his stepmother.In Mexico, he changed his name from Wilhelm to Guillermo.
In 1901 he set up a photographic studio, working for El Mundo Ilustrado and Semanario Ilustrado. He was commissionedby the government to do architectural photographs. He also took photographs of churches with other photographers for a six-volume survey in the 1920s.
He married María Cardenain 1895. The night she died giving birth to their third child, he asked Antonio Calderón for his daughter Matilde’s hand in marriage. After the marriage, Kahlo sent his andMaria’s daughters away to be raised in a convent.
The work of this German photographer he worked in Mexico from 1890 stands out for its architectural record of federallyowned property, especially the religious buildings of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. This work was conducted in the first two decades of the twentieth century, at therequest of the government of Porfirio Diaz. His work is a unique example of sophistication and has been essential reference for students of architecture and art of the colonialperiod. In recent times it has been revalued by the balance in your images that create spaces rarefactos and compositions that border on abstraction from the geometric elements.
Carl Wilhelm Kahlo (26 October 1871 – 14 April 1941) was a German-Mexican photographer and father of artist Frida Kahlo, He was an ancestor of actress DulceMaría.
Life and career
Kahlo was born in Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire, the son of jeweller Jakob Heinrich Kahlo and Henriette Kaufmann.Frida Kahlomaintained that he was of Hungarian Jewish descent
He attended the University of Nuremberg. His father paid him to travel to Mexico in 1891 as he did not get on with his stepmother.In Mexico, he changed his name from Wilhelm to Guillermo.
In 1901 he set up a photographic studio, working for El Mundo Ilustrado and Semanario Ilustrado. He was commissionedby the government to do architectural photographs. He also took photographs of churches with other photographers for a six-volume survey in the 1920s.
He married María Cardenain 1895. The night she died giving birth to their third child, he asked Antonio Calderón for his daughter Matilde’s hand in marriage. After the marriage, Kahlo sent his andMaria’s daughters away to be raised in a convent.
The work of this German photographer he worked in Mexico from 1890 stands out for its architectural record of federallyowned property, especially the religious buildings of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. This work was conducted in the first two decades of the twentieth century, at therequest of the government of Porfirio Diaz. His work is a unique example of sophistication and has been essential reference for students of architecture and art of the colonialperiod. In recent times it has been revalued by the balance in your images that create spaces rarefactos and compositions that border on abstraction from the geometric elements.
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