Jimmy Ernst decided early in life not to become an artist, for fear of being in the shadow of his father, Max Ernst. Suddenly, at the age of twenty, he felt the urge to paint, but not in the... Read full biography
Jimmy Ernst decided early in life not to become an artist, for fear of being in the shadow of his father, Max Ernst. Suddenly, at the age of twenty, he felt the urge to paint, but not in the surrealist style of his father. He was brought up by his mother, Louise Straus, in Cologne, after his... Read full biography
Jimmy Ernst decided early in life not to become an artist, for fear of being in the shadow of his father, Max Ernst. Suddenly, at the age of twenty, he felt the urge to paint, but not in the surrealist style of his father. He was brought up by his mother, Louise Straus, in Cologne, after his parents were divorced. His ethical grounding was instilled by his mother, who was Jewish and a journalist and led him to understand that his father's emotional cruelty did not amount to much in light of the... Read full biography
Jimmy Ernst decided early in life not to become an artist, for fear of being in the shadow of his father, Max Ernst. Suddenly, at the age of twenty, he felt the urge to paint, but not in the surrealist style of his father. He was brought up by his mother, Louise Straus, in Cologne, after his parents were divorced. His ethical grounding was instilled by his mother, who was Jewish and a journalist and led him to understand that his father's emotional cruelty did not amount to much in light of the Nazi's actual threats. He studied at Cologne-Lindenthal Real-Gymnasium and the Altona Arts and Crafts School where he completed a three year apprenticeship in printing and typography. In 1928 he went to Colorado with anthropologist Gladys Reichard... Read full biography
Jimmy Ernst decided early in life not to become an artist, for fear of being in the shadow of his father, Max Ernst. Suddenly, at the age of twenty, he felt the urge to paint, but not in the surrealist style of his father. He was brought up by his mother, Louise Straus, in Cologne, after his parents were divorced. His ethical grounding was instilled by his mother, who was Jewish and a journalist and led him to understand that his father's emotional cruelty did not amount to much in light of the Nazi's actual threats. He studied at Cologne-Lindenthal Real-Gymnasium and the Altona Arts and Crafts School where he completed a three year apprenticeship in printing and typography. In 1928 he went to Colorado with anthropologist Gladys Reichard and worked with Navajo Indians. In 1938 he emigrated to the United... Read full biography
Jimmy Ernst - Artist Info
About Jimmy Ernst: Books
Books & Publications (65)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Peggy Guggenheim: Mistress of Modernism
2004
Dearborn, Mary
448 pages
With an Eye and a Passion: Selections from The Marion Collection
2003
Sherman, Charlotte (Essay)
38 pages (color)
New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists
2000
Herskovic, Marika
393 pages (color)
Jimmy Ernst
2000
Kuspit, Donald
168 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 40s
1998
Sawin, M; W. Jeffett
0 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
1996
Strueber, Michael (Director)
118 pages (color)
A Boatload of Madmen Surrealism and American Avant-Garde 1920-1950
1995
Tashjian, Dickran
424 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
Jimmy Ernst Retrospective (1942-1983) (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Meek, William/Frank Getlein
43 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Jimmy Ernst, A Survey 1942-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Getlein, Frank/Diane Waldman
47 pages (color)
A Not So Still Life a memoir by Jimmy Ernst
1984
Ernst, Jimmy
272 pages
A Not So Still Life
1984
Ernst, Jimmy
0 pages
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Twenty-Five Artists
1982
Messer, Thomas/Arlene Bujese
108 pages
Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World
1981
Myers, John Bernard
285 pages
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney
1981
Whitney Museum
136 pages
Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Ballinger, James K
206 pages (color)
The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980
1980
Barnett, Vivian Endicott
526 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Out of this Century Confessions of an Art Adict
1979
Guggenheim, Peggy
396 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Wechsler, Jeffrey
116 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection