In 1938, after returning from a showing of his work in Paris, the Nazis arrested Bauer for his "diseased" art. A year before this his art had been part of the infamous Degenerate Art show in Munich, put on by the Nazis to show subversive abstract art. Even after this, Bauer had declined to leave Germany. After his arrest Bauer was kept in a Gestapo prison for close to a year, as his influential friends Rebay and Guggenheim labored to get him set free. After several failed efforts, he was finally released without condition in August 1938. While he was imprisoned Bauer created scores of drawings on scraps of salvaged paper. He then made the difficult decision to leave Germany and spent the following months organizing his paperwork. He arrived in the United States in July 1939, just months before the start of World War II.
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