Start   Introduction   I.1931/32   II.1933/34   III.1935/36   IV.1937/38   V.1939/40   Chronology   Events	II. “Degenerate” – and Emigration Home   Head of a Martyr, 1933, 280 Gift of LK, Klee-Museum, Bern	After being suspended from the Düsseldorf Academy, Klee emigrates in December 1933 to Bern, the city of his childhood and youth. In an audacious step, he forsakes the precise dreamworld of the Düsseldorf phase for a harsh, stricken and profoundly condensed new idiom. The pulsating, mythically evocative patterns of the pointillist period give way to the scars of a perception under duress.