Start   Introduction   I.1931/32   II.1933/34   III.1935/36   IV.1937/38   V.1939/40   Chronology   Events	I. Subtlety on the Brink of Disaster   Polyphony, 1932, 273 Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, on deposit in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel	After a long, successful period of teaching activity at the Bauhaus, in Weimar and Dessau, Klee is appointed professor at the Düsseldorf Academy in 1931. His work enters its renowned pointillist phase, in which his colorism reaches a culmination of subtlety and concision. Yet this superb, finely articulated painting finds an abrupt end when Klee – after the Nazi takeover – is suspended from his teaching post in April 1933.