Statement of the accounts for the financial years 1932 through 1935
On June 30, 1936, the Kunstverein amended its statutes to include section 8, paragraph d, which stated that “non-Aryans cannot be members of the association.” The amendment of the statutes, as art historian Christian Fuhrmeister notes, went hand in hand with the Kunstverein’s general “conformity in relation to [the Nazis’] decisive ideological and cultural parameters such as formal aesthetic premises as well as preferences of motifs.” This climate is particularly evident in the minutes of the meeting during which the amendment of the statutes was decided. They read: “The fact that the association has steered free of all that which today is rightly called ‘degenerate art’ is reason for justified pride, and has brought with it its own reward, as the association did not have to change allegiances as so many others did after our leader Adolf Hitler seized power. That is why we have no difficulty in joyfully pledging allegiance to the principles established by the Third Reich for the cultivation of German art and to employ our best efforts on Munich’s future mission, for the benefit of Munich’s art and Munich’s artists.”