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Jakob Heinrich Kahlo (Külo) and Henriette Kahlo (née Kaufmann) were originally from the city of Arad, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is currently in Romania. They moved to Germany and settled near Baden-Baden in the late 1860s.
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Jakob owned a shop that sold jewelry and photographic supplies. Henriette was a housewife. They had several children, among them Wilhelm, who was born on October 26, 1872. In 1890, Henriette Kaufmann Kahlo died, and Jakob Kahlo remarried shortly thereafter. Following his father's remarriage, Wilhelm immigrated to Mexico. By 1892, he had changed his name to Guillermo and was working in a jewelry shop owned by German immigrants. |
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In the painting, Kahlo based the portraits of her paternal grandparents on their photographs but modified her grandmother's features so that she bears a resemblence to Frida herself.
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