Guillermo Kahlo

Carl Wilhelm Kahlo (26 October 1871 – 14 April 1941) was a German-Mexican photographer and father of artist Frida Kahlo, who painted his portrait. Kahlo was born in Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (now in Baden-Württemberg, Germany), the son of jeweller Jakob Heinrich Kahlo and Henriette Kaufmann. Frida Kahlo maintained that he was of Hungarian Jewish descent. One recent book, Fridas Vater: Der Fotograf Guillermo Kahlo by Gaby Franger and Rainer Huhle, asserts that "despite the legend propagated by Frida," Guillermo did not have Jewish-Hungarian roots, but was born to Protestant parents and "came from families accommodated in Frankfurt and Pforzheim." He attended the University of Nuremberg. His father paid him to travel...