Among the best known artists of the time, Paul Klee was known for his childlike and yet complex renderings of murals and bold artwork in a regime which found both to be ridiculous and degenerate. Klee was among the artists featured in the Entarte Kunste, or "Degenerate Art" exhibit sponsored by the Reichkunstkammer(sp), which sought to show the degenerative influence of Jewish art on the German community, which they considered the artistic manifestation of 'Bolshevism' [communism]. Klee was a Jewish artist who had been influenced by and instrumental in the Bauhaus which encouraged artists to boldly pursue new ways of looking at art and design. Since he departed from traditional form and subject matter, he fell into the category

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