Opening Hours for the Exhibition

Please note: On Thursday, February 13, 2025, you can visit our exhibition "Lee Miller Photography" only to a limitied extent due to the "MSC@Amerikahaus – Emerging Leaders" events. On Friday, February 14, 2025, and Saturday, February 15, 2025, our photo exhibition is closed all day. Thank you for your understanding! 

Self portrait with headband, New York Studio, New York, USA c1932 by Lee Miller ©Lee Miller Archives England 2024. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk

Lee Miller Photography

Saturday, February 01, 2025, until Thursday, July 31, 2025

With her photographs, Lee Miller created one of the most important documents of the so-called “zero hour” in Munich. Her war photographs show the American view of the end of the war in Europe. The photographer accompanied American soldiers from the landing in Normandy to the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp; she fearlessly shows the suffering and destruction of war. Technically, Lee’s U.S. Citizenship permitted her to travel to Europe as a correspondent, but no woman was permitted to be on the frontline. It was only through her tenacity that she went frontline and was able to assert herself in the male-dominated environment of the military and accompany the armed forces through war-torn Germany. 

The works by Lee Miller exhibited in the Amerikahaus are not limited to war photography. The well-connected artist was already active as a photographer before the war. She began her career in front of the camera as a model in New York. Shortly thereafter, she worked as a photographer, herself, in Paris, New York and, for a time, in Egypt. She worked for many years for British and American Vogue. 

The exhibition Lee Miller Photography at the Amerikahaus focuses on Lee Miller as an artist and shows works from her various creative phases.

 

Photo: Self portrait with headband, New York Studio, New York, USA c1932 by Lee Miller ©Lee Miller Archives England 2024. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk

Please note: Big backpacks and bags are not permitted in the exhibiton and the Amerikahaus, only purses and bags up to the size of DIN A4 (21 × 29,7 cm) are allowed.

Admission is free. Registration is not necessary.

 

Please note: No photography and filming allowed. 

Vernissage: Friday, January 31, 2025, 7 p.m. 

 

Welcome Address:

Dr. Meike Zwingenberger, Amerikahaus – Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations

Dr. James Miller, Consul General at the U.S. Consulate in Munich

Ami Bouhassane, Lee Miller Archives

Antony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives

Saturday, February 01, 2025, through Thursday, July 31, 2025

Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. 
Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. 
Saturday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. 

The exhibition is closed on Sundays and on public holidays.

We offer guided tours of the exhibition on every first and third Thursday of the month. The tours are public and start at 4 p.m. Meeting point is across from our wardrobe. Admission is free, and registration is not necessary. 

Amerikahaus München

Karolinenplatz 3, 80333, Munich

Dominik Raabe

Head of Programs – Culture and Politics

Email
raabe@amerikahaus.de
programm@amerikahaus.de

Telephone
+49 89 552537-14

Nina Müller

Program Manager – Culture and Politics

Email
mueller@amerikahaus.de
programm@amerikahaus.de

Telephone
+49 89 552537-13