Frida Kahlo is one of the most renowned Latin American artists and enjoys great popularity, especially in Germany. Laura Rodrigues Nöhles traces this success story through the major solo exhibitions and the extensive literature on Kahlo. She highlights the relationship between Kahlo's reception and German cultural history in the 20th century. The influence of feminism and the questions of cultural identity, as well as the political tendencies in Kahlo's work, are examined in relation to the artist's reception. An excursion into the relationship between Kahlo's art and German Romanticism also opens up new perspectives on the work of the Mexican artist.