Jimmy Ernst
- Hans-Ulrich “Jimmy” Ernst (June 1920 – February 1984), son of Surrealist painter Max Ernst
- Moved from Germany to New York in 1938
- Became director of The Art of This Century Gallery in 1942. Held is first solo exhibition one year later.
- During the 1940’s he became a member of the Irascible Eighteen, a group of abstract painters who protested against the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s policy toward American painting of that era.
- In 1951 he became an instructor at the Department of Design, Brooklyn College
- Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship (1961), honorary degree by Long Island University (1982). Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and to the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.