The Degenerate Art exhibition presented works with wall texts intended to inflame the audience’s racial and ethnic resentment. The labels for Kirchner’s Street, Berlin, for example, noted that the painting was “purchased with the taxes of working German people” by the Nationalgalerie in 1920, for 12,000 German marks. This seemingly high figure, largely due to the inflation in the 1920s, was intended to further provoke visitors.