English Translation

D Negotiating book on the founding meeting of the Kunstverein Sudetenland e.V. Reichenberg, 8 October 1941, Hotel Löwe, Großer Saal. Participants: 108 invited guests. The Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter opened the collection with the reference to the necessity to collect a layer of support for the creative artists of all areas within the Gaue, which can offer the healthy creation of our days the necessary psychological and economic reverberation. Above all, however, it is necessary for the great, force-raising tasks. He therefore decided to commission a series of important monuments to leading artists of our Gaues for the history of the Sudetengau, such as the monument to the poet of the "Ackermann" in Saaz, the farmer-free Kudlich near Jägerndorf, the Brüx hero Gorenz and others. Furthermore, the establishment of the branch office of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in Reichenberg will offer the artistic life of our Gaues, as well as the Kunststätte in Kukus and the other planned art schools an opportunity to develop. The Gauleiter concluded with the invitation to participate in these tasks within the framework of the now founded Kunstverein Su- detenland e.V.