Jimmy Ernst, born Hans-Ulrich Ernst (June 24, 1920 - February 6, 1984), was an American painter born in Germany. 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, including André Masson, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí and Luis 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 in New 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 to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, which she did not survive.
[Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 inches]
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