Paul Klee and the Kaiser’s flying aces

Visitors to the Met Breuers new show, Humour and Fantasy: the Berggruen Paul Klee Collection (until 31 December) can read an interview with the artists son Felix, which has been reprinted for the New York show. Felix recalls his fathers narrow escape from being sent to the front to serve in the Kaisers army during the First World War. His mother pulled strings and the artist-conscript ended up in a flying school near Augsburg becoming indispensable to a paymaster who couldnt coun