Jackie - Lady in the First Place

in the Museum THE KENNEDYS
(Opening hours: daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.)

The Museum THE KENNEDYS is happy to present the special exhibition "Jackie - Lady in the First Place" starting on April 15, 2011. Along with the photographs and objects from Jackie Kennedy that are already on display in the museum - among them a pillbox-hat she used to wear - the special exhibition "Jackie - Lady in the First Place" offers the opportunity to get to know better the woman behind the First Lady. The life and contributions of Jackie Kennedy are still an important part of the cultural, political and historical sciences. The media have consistently been portraying her as the standard to which American First Ladies, such as currently Michelle Obama, have to measure up to.

Her development of becoming the President's wife and the family mother, the rise to being a style icon, the numerous strokes of fate: The special exhibition "Jackie - Lady in the First Place" allows a unique and intense insight into the life of the woman born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in 1929. For many she represents the first modern First Lady, whose interesting life, touching personality as well as impressive appearance fascinates especially women even today. More than 50 photographs, some of which have never been on display before, impressively trace Jackie's life and movingly documents the vita of a woman who found her way from being a university student and journalist to the political world stage as well as into the political bohemia, who impressed others with her intellect and her interest in art, who was admired as a loving mother, rose to become a style icon and polarized as a public persona. Along with photographs documenting Jackie's early childhood and youth, the exhibition also grants intimate insights into her private life with John F. Kennedy and sketches her life after his death up to her second marriage to Aristotle Onassis.

All of the photographs on display belong to the collection of CAMERA WORK AG. They not only serve as a means of historically documenting Jackie's life - they also impressive due to their iconography, composition, and aesthetics. Thus, the collection includes photographs by well-known photographers such as Jacques Lowe, Bob Davidoff, and Mark Shaw, who, with his camera, captured numerous intimate moments in the life of Jackie. Works by German photographer Robert Lebeck, whose striking photo-icon of the mourning Jackie and her sister went around the world, are also on display.

In the context of the special exhibition "Jackie - Lady in the First Place" the Museum THE KENNEDYS offers its guests a 45-minute German-language guided tour on the topic Jackie Kennedy, taking place every Sunday at 3 p.m.