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J ernst art biography
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Jimmy Ernst
American painter
Hans-Ulrich Ernst (June 24, 1920 – February 6, 1984), known as Jimmy Ernst, was an American painter born in Germany.
Early life
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.[1][2] His parents separated in 1922 and divorced in 1926 and Ernst remained with his mother in Cologne.[1] He visited his father in France in 1930, where he met many artists, including Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, André Masson, Joan Miró, Man Ray and Yves Tanguy, as well as his father's lover Leonora Carrington.[1] In February 1933, a month after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the SS searched Luise Straus' apartment.[1] As a noted intellectual and a Jew she was regarded as suspect by the new regime.[1] Ernst was sent to live with his grandfather, Luise's father, whi