Jimmy Ernst

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

Lou Straus built a successful professional life as a publicist. After Hitler came to power, she emigrated to Paris and also knew how to live with the Rhenish joie de vivre in emigration. The son often visited his father in Paris, for the first time in 1930, where he met many Surrealists. From 1935 to 1938 he did his apprenticeship as a typesetter in the well-known JJ Augustin printing company in Glückstadt , until he managed to escape to America in 1938 with the help of the Augustins. There he got by as a casual worker. At the beginning of the 1940s he began to paint as an autodidact, released himself from the spell of his famous father and initially became known in the USA as a surrealist painter. He later painted in the style of Abstract Expressionism .

Lou Straus-Ernst said goodbye to Jimmy in 1938 with the words: “I think I'll be waiting here for you. All my friends are here in Paris ”. After their internment in 1939 at Camp de Gurs and waiting in vain for their exit papers, Jimmy tried to get his parents as a married couple a visa; to do this, the two would have had to marry again - a request that Lou rejected. Max Ernst received his visa in 1941, Lou Straus-Ernst went to Haute Provence, where she felt safe in the care of the writer Jean Giono - until she was arrested and transported to Auschwitz in 1944. On June 30, 1944, she was lost .

On July 14, 1941, his father, Max Ernst, arrived in New York with the art patron Peggy Guggenheim , whom he married for the third time at the end of the year. Jimmy Ernst was the personal secretary of Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery in 1942/43 and had his first solo exhibition (Reflections of the Inner Eye) in 1943. In January 1947 he married Edith "Dallas" Bauman Brody (1923–2011) and had two children with her, Amy Louise (* 1953) and Eric Max (* 1956). He received his US citizenship in 1952 and lived in New York City and East Hampton, NY . In New York in 1977 he was accepted as an Associate Member ( ANA ) of the National Academy of Design . In 1983 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Shortly before the publication of his autobiography A Not-So-Still Life , Jimmy Ernst died in New York in 1984.

Dallas Ernst donated the Jimmy Ernst Award in 1990. The annual prize of 10,000 dollars was awarded to a painter or sculptor until 2012: "whose lifetime contribution to his or her vision has been both consistent and dedicated".

exhibition

literature

  • Jimmy Ernst: A Not-So-Still Life . St Martins Pr, New York 1984
    • Not exactly a still life. Memories of my father Max Ernst , translated into German by Barbara Bortfeldt. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 1985, 1988, 1991, 2000, ISBN 978-3-462-01722-9 ; also as paperback 1991: ISBN 3-462-02154-0
  • Susanne Flecken: Luise Straus-Ernst. A life full of color , in: Annette Kuhn and Valentine Rothe (eds.), 100 years of women's studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (seminar for history and its didactics and political education, subject area of ​​women's history), in cooperation with the main seminar 100 Years of women's history at the University of Bonn , Edition Ebersbach, Dortmund 1996, ISBN 3-931782-11-5

Movie

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from the web link onion fish - Jimmy Ernst, Glückstadt - New York
  2. ↑ Jimmy Ernst , guggenheim.org, accessed December 16, 2015
  3. ↑ Jimmy Ernst , bildindex.de, accessed on October 19, 2012
  4. ↑ Obituaries: Edith Dallas Ernst , easthamptonstar.com, June 16, 2011, accessed November 4, 2015
  5. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "E" / Ernst, Jimmy ANA 1977 ( Memento from August 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 20, 2015)
  6. ↑ Members: Jimmy Ernst. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Jimmy Ernst Award ( memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), artsandletters.org, accessed on November 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Seriously, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernst, Hans-Ulrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1984
Place of death New York , NY