Hans-Ulrich Ernst, known as Jimmy Ernst, was an American painter born in Germany.
10 Facts About Jimmy Ernst
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Jimmy Ernst was born in 1920 in Cologne, Germany, the son of German Surrealist painter Max Ernst and Luise Straus-Ernst, a well-known art historian and journalist.
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Jimmy Ernst's parents separated in 1922 and divorced in 1926 and Ernst remained with his mother in Cologne.
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Jimmy Ernst visited his father in France in 1930, where he met many artists, including Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Alberto Giacometti, Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Man Ray and Yves Tanguy, as well as his father's lover Leonora Carrington.
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In June 1938, Jimmy Ernst sailed to New York from Le Havre on the liner SS Manhattan.
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The ERC secured his release in 1941 and Max Jimmy Ernst arrived in New York from Nazi occupied France.
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Shortly afterwards Jimmy Ernst became director of The Art of This Century Gallery in 1942.
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In 1951 Jimmy Ernst was granted the post of an instructor at Department of Design, Brooklyn College.
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Jimmy Ernst built a winter home in Florida in 1980.
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Jimmy Ernst married Edith Dallas Bauman Brody, a talent scout for Warner Brothers, on January 3,1947.