Kandinsky Painting Should Return to Jewish Heirs, Panel Says
The decisions of the government panel, which handles claims about art lost or looted in the Nazi-era, are not legally binding, but are nearly always followed.
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The decisions of the government panel, which handles claims about art lost or looted in the Nazi-era, are not legally binding, but are nearly always followed.
Disputed Kandinsky painting to stay in the Netherlands, court decides
The city of Amsterdam on Monday handed over a painting by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky to heirs of a Jewish couple who had sold it as they tried t
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The 1909 painting was just one of a treasured art collection inherited by Robert Lewenstein and his wife Irma Klein. But the pair were forced to sell it in October 1940 as they fled the Nazis.