Frida Kahlo Family Tree: People, Sources and Citations

Fourteen people

Everyone on the Frida Kahlo family tree

Each person on this Frida Kahlo family tree has a row. Choose a period to list the people alive in it.

Who was alive

All 14 people on the chart are listed.

The people on the chart, in the order of its rows.
Portrait	Person	Years	Life	On the chart
JH	Jakob Heinrich KahloPaternal grandfather	Not recorded	A jeweller of Pforzheim. Sources4	Find on the chart
HK	Henriette KaufmannPaternal grandmother	Not recorded	Mother of Guillermo. Sources4	Find on the chart
AC	Antonio CalderónMaternal grandfather	Not recorded	A photographer. Sources1	Find on the chart
IG	Isabel GonzálezMaternal grandmother	Not recorded	Mother of Matilde. Sources1	Find on the chart
MC	María CardeñaFirst wife of Guillermo	Not recorded	Died in childbirth in 1897. Sources5	Find on the chart
	Guillermo KahloFather, photographer	1871–1941	Built the Casa Azul in 1904. Sources1 4	Find on the chart
	Matilde CalderónMother	1874?–1932	Mother of four daughters. Sources1	Find on the chart
ML	María Luisa KahloHalf-sister	1894–1993	Raised in a convent. Sources4 5	Find on the chart
MK	Margarita KahloHalf-sister	1896–1988	Raised in a convent. Sources4 5	Find on the chart
	Matilde KahloEldest sister	1899–1951	Eight years older than Frida. Sources1	Find on the chart
	Adriana KahloSecond sister	1902–1968	Born in 1902. Sources1	Find on the chart
	Frida KahloPainter	1907–1954	Born and died at Coyoacán. Sources1 3	Find on the chart
	Diego RiveraHusband, painter	1886–1957	Married Frida in 1929 and 1940. Sources7	Find on the chart
	Cristina KahloYoungest sister	1908–1964	Mother of Isolda and Antonio. Sources6	Find on the chart

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Sources

Every source was opened on 10 November 2026. The chronology of the Museo Frida Kahlo is cited for the family dates, and Wikipedia for the rest, with the places where they disagree stated. The record of the Museum of Modern Art could not be read by a script, so it is linked and not cited.

Museo Frida Kahlo