Jimmy Ernst

Jimmy Ernst ( * June 24, 1920 in Cologne, † February 6, 1984 in New York, NY, actually Hans -Ulrich Ernst ) was a German -American painter.

Life

Jimmy Ernst was the son of the first marriage of the surrealist Max Ernst with the Cologne Jewish Luise Straus ( Lou Straus ). The connection of the parents broke up after a few years, in 1926 the couple divorced. Max Ernst moved to Paris in 1922 and lived with Paul Éluard and his wife Gala in a ménage à trois. Gala was the companion and later wife of Salvador Dalí. Jimmy stayed with his mother and Maja Aretz, the faithful housekeeper from the Eifel, in Cologne.

Lou Straus built a successful professional existence as a journalist. After Hitler came to power, she emigrated to Paris and knew also, with Rhenish joie de vivre to live in exile. The son visited his father often in Paris, in 1930, where he met many Surrealists. In the known printing Augustin in Gluckstadt he made from 1935 to 1938 his apprenticeship as a typesetter, to him with the help of Augustine in 1938 managed to escape to America. There he suggested initially by a casual basis. In the early 1940s he began teaching himself to paint, broke away from the spell of his famous father and was known in the U.S. as a surrealist painter.

Lou Straus -Ernst had said goodbye to Jimmy 1938 with the words: "I think I'll wait here for you. Here in Paris are all my friends. " After her internment 1939 in Camp de Gur and the vain waiting for their exit papers, Jimmy tried to give his parents as a couple for a visa; to the two would have to marry but again - a suggestion, which dismissed Lou. Max Ernst received his visa in 1941, Lou Straus -Ernst went to the Haute Provence, where they felt safe in the care of the writer Jean Giono -. Until her arrest and the deportation to Auschwitz 1944 On June 30, 1944, loses its track.

On July 14, 1941, his father Max Ernst met with the art patron Peggy Guggenheim in New York, whom he married at the end of his third wife. Jimmy Ernst was 1942/43, the personal secretary of Guggenheim's Art of This Century and had his first solo exhibition in 1943 ( Reflections of the Inner Eye). In January 1947, he married Edith "Dallas" Brody and had two children with her, Amy Louise ( born 1953 ) and Eric Max ( b. 1956 ). He acquired American citizenship in 1952 and lived in New York City and East Hampton, NY. Shortly before the publication of his autobiography, A Not-So - Still Life Jimmy Ernst died in 1984 in New York.

Dallas Ernst founded in 1990 the Jimmy Ernst Award. The annual award in the amount of $ 10,000 will be awarded to a painter or sculptor: "whose lifetime contribution to his or her vision HAS BEEN Both consistent and dedicated ."

Exhibition

  • 2011: Museum of Work, Hamburg: Onion Fish - Jimmy Ernst luck City / New York, Jimmy Ernst and his relationship with the Glückstädter printing house Augustin
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