- Jimmy Ernst
Jimmy Ernst (born Hans-Ulrich Ernst) (
June 24 ,1920 -February 6 ,1984 ) was an American painter born inGermany .He was the son of surrealist painter
Max Ernst and Luise Straus. When he was just two years old, his parents divorced, Jimmy staying with his mother. He first visited his father in France in 1930, where he met many of the surrealists, includingAndré Masson ,Yves Tanguy ,Salvador Dalí andLuis Buñuel .In February 1933 the Ernst family emigrated to Paris on account of being suspected by the new Nazi regime. In June 1938 Jimmy set sail from
Le Havre , eventually arriving inNew York . There he met many European exiles and befriended the city's avant-garde. His efforts to transport his father away from Nazi-occupied France finally succeeded in 1941. His mother, however, was sent toAuschwitz concentration camp in 1944, which she did not survive.Ernst became director of
The Art of This Century Gallery in 1942. A year later he had his first one-person exhibition. During the late 1940s he became a member of theIrrascible Eighteen abstractionist group.In 1951 he was granted the post of an instructor at Department of Design,
Brooklyn College . He moved toEast Hampton in 1969. He also built a winter home inFlorida in 1980.Ernst married Edith Brody in January 1947 and had two children, Amy Louise (1953) and Eric Max (1956).
Awarded
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961 and an honorary degree by theLong Island University (Southampton College) in 1982. Also elected to theAmerican Academy .His memoirs, "A Not-So-Still Life", were published shortly before his death.
His son is Eric Ernst.
References
* Marika Herskovic, [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/50666793&tab=holdings "New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists,"] (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6
External Links
* [http://www.artnet.com/awc/jimmy-ernst.html Jimmy Ernst catalogue in artnet's "Artist Works Catalogues"]
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