The subject of this lecture is the emigration of artists during the Nazi era. The lecture deals with the structures and organisations of the exile of artists in Paris, Prague, London and other places, with the exile biographies of artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Paul Klee and many others, but above all with the works of art that were created during the emigration and that address the experience of exile in different ways. In addition, newer approaches to exile research in art history will be presented and discussed.