The Permanent Exhibition:  Frida Kahlo  "Viva la Vida"

Hand-painted by master artists licensed Replicas © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008.  What is a Replica....

The most complete Frida Kahlo oil paintings exhibition
Over 600 sqm (6000 sq feet) exhibition surface and over 116 of her paintings.

Admission:
15 Euro
10 Euro:  Students, Seniors
Groups as of 6 people, 10 Euro per person
Audio Guide: 5 Euro (gratis on Fridays)

Location:
Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund
Industrie Str.  9a, 76532 Baden-Baden, Germany
Email: info@FridaKahlo.Mu

The Kunstmuseum is accessible with wheelchair.
Parking available in the nearby streets

Directions:
- from Baden-Baden downtown by car
- from the bus stop
- from the highwas A5
- from the train station

The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo had a special relationship with Germany; her father was born in Germany and grew up in Baden-Baden. When she was 18 year old, she suffered a life threatening bus accident whose consequences marked her physically and emotionally for the rest of her life. Years later, Frida said: "I suffered two grave accidents in my life…One in which a streetcar knocked me down and the other was Diego."
At age of 22 Frida Kahlo married Diego Rivera, the most famous Mexican painter of her time, who was 21 years her senior.

Ten years later she separated from him, and at this point her most productive time as an artist began. One year after the divorce, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera married a second time.

She was the lover of Leon Trotzki, Josephine Baker, Georgia O’Keefe; she was and still is an art and fashion icon; her style has remained unique over the decades.
She died in 1954 at age 47.

Frida Kahlo -  already a legend during her lifetime -  today is probably the most famous female painter of all times. Her life was extravagant and marked by suffering, passion and love for life. Although her life was short and troubled, she has left us a unique collection of paintings. Today her works are as relevant and contemporary as never before; she described the challenges, the passion, the love and contradictions of our times.

André Breton described her works as a “ribbon around a bomb”, she had the courage to describe herself and her life in the most colourful, realistic and – at the same time – poetic way.

Pablo Picasso wrote: “neither Rivera, Derain, or I are able to paint a face like Frida Kahlo”. She was the master of self-portraits; in the exhibition, all the self-portraits of Frida Kahlo are shown. 

 As most of Frida Kahlo’s works are spread around the world, and are in the hands of private collectors, the paintings in the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund are licensed replicas from © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008.

These unique replicas have been painted exclusively for the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund by master artists, and can be found exclusively in the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund in Baden-Baden. They are painted in the original size, with the original materials (oil on canvas, oil on wood/metal or glas), and in exactly the same style as Frida Kahlo painted them.

The Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund shows 116 oil paintings, this is the most complete Frida Kahlo exhibition of all times.

Our visitors experience Frida Kahlo paintings and her life’s context.
In addition to her work, we show Tehuana dresses, jewelry and photos. Moreover, we have recreated the garden of the Casa Azul (The blue house: the family house of Frida Kahlo) with its Aztec pyramid and pre-Columbian sculptures, and entire rooms of her Blue House.

The Vision of the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund is to offer our visitors a cultural experience that covers all the senses, and an environment that touches not only the eyes of our visitors, but their minds, and above all their hearts.
Every decision we made in the creation of the museum was driven by two elements:
- respect for the visitors, and
- respect for the artists.
The Kunstmuseum is a private museum entirely funded by its founders: art, Frida Kahlo and Mexico admirers.

All the 800 exhibits shown in the museum are part of the private collection of the museum founders.

In the creation of the museum we have planned every step, every detail from the visitors point of view, and we are committed to continuous improvements to make the experience unique.
As far as the art works are concerned, we have invested considerable time and resources in replicating the paintings, and displaying them in a context as loyal as possible to the reality of the artist.
The Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund strives to offer the visitors a complete view of the entire work of Frida Kahlo, in this way it is possible to follow the development of the Mexican artist, to discover the different phases of her life as an artist and as a woman.