Recollecting Paul Klee: condemned by the Nazis as a 'degenerate' painter Paul Klee fled Germany in 1933 to seek refuge in his boyhood home of Switzerland. Swiss News looks back at Klee's life and work, his artistic influences and his final years as a troubled exile in his adopted country.

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Recollecting Paul Klee: condemned by the Nazis as a 'degenerate' painter Paul Klee fled Germany in 1933 to seek refuge in his boyhood home of Switzerland. Swiss News looks back at Klee's life and work, his artistic influences and his final years as a troubled exile in his adopted country.

Paul Klee (1879-1940) experimented with many different artistic styles, from expressionism and surrealism to abstract art and cubism. He painted some 8,926 artworks, 4,000 of which can be found at the Paul Klee Centre in Bern. Though Klee's works have been universally lauded since his death, he did not always face such rave reviews in life.

When it seized power in 1933, Germany's Nazi Party castigated the art of Klee and his com...

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