Leon Golub, whose powerful tableaux of human cruelty and suffering MK was the first to present in a museum on the European continent in 1987 in Lucerne and Hamburg newer paintings of the ‘70and ‘80. In New York Golub showed his earlier exhibits, works from his intense series Shields and Gigantomachy of the late ‘60 and ‘70. 

Exact dates in 1997 But the critical success of this and previous shows alone cannot carry the Kunsthalle, and MK is forced to announce the closing of his non-profit in the near future. Lack of support from American foundations as well as city, state, and federal cultural US agencies - they assume funding by European patrons and institutions - but as noted above, the co-existence of the more and more active “Swiss Institute'' made also the financing from big Swiss sponsors and government difficult, The Streuli-Schiess project being the only exception. MK also loses the support of his European donors when American funding proves to be largely inaccessible, or regularly postponed with giving the same time lot’s of compliments. This necessitates this painful move when the several private Swiss and German supporters would lose their motivation and engagement. In spite of its great reputation and growing audience.