When this venue moved to a new building, the idea of constructing an art hall was born, and in 1886, a fund was established to finance the project.

Under the art historian Richart Reiche, who became the conservator of the Kunstverein in 1907, modern works were shown.

[1] In 1909 and 1911, two "Sonderbund Exhibitions" were held, and in 1910, the Neue Künstlervereinigung München, the predecessor of the "Blue Rider" group, was presented to the public.

[2] However, during the Nazi "Degenerate Art" campaign in 1937, 94 works from this collection were confiscated, including pieces by Jankel Adler, Wladimir Bechtejew, Max Burchartz, Marc Chagall, Otto Dix, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, and many others.

It was reopened on June 21, 1958, under the name "Haus der Jugend" (House of Youth), with a redesigned interior.

The dome was not reconstructed, nor were the large stone eagles on the roof or the Kaiser statues, as they had been destroyed in the postwar period.