Jimmy Ernst - Painted disc - 1968
Painted mixed media by Jimmy Ernst.
Jimmy Ernst, (1920-1984), was born in Cologne, Germany, the son of famous German Surrealist Max Ernst, and Luise Straus-Ernst, a well-known art historian and journalist. Through his parents Ernst met many important artists of his time, including Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, as well as his father’s lover, the surrealist, Leonora Carrington. During WWII Ernst was sent to live in Paris. There he met many European exiles and the city’s avant-garde.
Ernst petitioned to have his father released from internment in 1940. In 1941 his father was released and the two moved from Nazi occupied France to New York. Ernst’s mother was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.
In New York Ernst became the assistant to Peggy Guggenheim (who was his stepmother at the time). Ernst became director of The Art of This Century Gallery in 1942, and one year later he had his first one-person exhibition.
During the late 1940s he became a member of The Irascible Eighteen, a group of abstract painters who protested against the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s policy towards American painting of the 1940s. Members of the group included Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko.
In 1951 Jimmy was granted the post of an instructor at Department of Design, Brooklyn College.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961, a Carnegie Foundation grant in 1967,
then elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1977, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician and an honorary degree by the Long Island University in 1982.
Jimmy Ernst’s works are held by numerous prestigious institutions around the world.
This work is from 1968. It is a painted metal disc, mounted on a painted masonite panel.
It measures 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches overall, and is signed and dated by the artist, and is in excellent condition.
Purchased at a Cantor Museum, Stanford University, sale to benefit the museum.
In the late 1960s Jimmy Ernst created many different painted discs, and painted discs mounted on back boards. This work was created in 1968 and is black paint laid on an aluminum disc, then manipulated with a pallet knife, with that disc float mounted on a painted masonite panel.
Jimmy Ernst, (1920-1984), was born in Cologne, Germany, the son of famous German Surrealist Max Ernst, and Luise Straus-Ernst, a well-known art historian and journalist. Through his parents Ernst met many important artists of his time, including Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, as well as his father’s lover, the surrealist, Leonora Carrington. During WWII Ernst was sent to live in Paris. There he met many European exiles and the city’s avant-garde.
Ernst petitioned to have his father released from internment in 1940. In 1941 his father was released and the two moved from Nazi occupied France to New York. Ernst’s mother was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.
In New York Ernst became the assistant to Peggy Guggenheim (who was his stepmother at the time). Ernst became director of The Art of This Century Gallery in 1942, and one year later he had his first one-person exhibition.
During the late 1940s he became a member of The Irascible Eighteen, a group of abstract painters who protested against the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s policy towards American painting of the 1940s. Members of the group included Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko.
In 1951 Jimmy was granted the post of an instructor at Department of Design, Brooklyn College.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961, a Carnegie Foundation grant in 1967,
then elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1977, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician and an honorary degree by the Long Island University in 1982.
Jimmy Ernst’s works are held by numerous prestigious institutions around the world.
This work is from 1968. It is a painted metal disc, mounted on a painted masonite panel.
It measures 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches overall, and is signed and dated by the artist, and is in excellent condition.
Purchased at a Cantor Museum, Stanford University, sale to benefit the museum.
In the late 1960s Jimmy Ernst created many different painted discs, and painted discs mounted on back boards. This work was created in 1968 and is black paint laid on an aluminum disc, then manipulated with a pallet knife, with that disc float mounted on a painted masonite panel.
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