Roofkunst Hammerstein vertrekt vlak voor de publicatie van een evaluatievan het Nederlandse restitutiebeleid op het gebied van roofkunst. Op datbeleid is recent veel kritiek geweest. NRC Handelsblad Arjen Ribbens 24 November 2020

[THIS IS AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE ORIGINAL DUTCH ARTICLE "Alfred Hammerstein stapt op als voorzitter Restitutiecommissie" PUBLISHED ON THE NRC HANDELSBLAD ON NOVEMBER 24, 2020] (https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/11/24/alfred-hammerstein-stapt-op-als-voorzitter-restitutiecommissie-a4021205) Predatory art Hammerstein leaves just before the publication of an evaluation of the Dutch restitution policy in the field of predatory art. This policy has been widely criticized recentl

Alfred Hammerstein’s departure follows criticism of Dutch committee’s decisions. The Art Newspaper Catherine Hickley 26th November 2020 11:20 GMT

November 11, 2020

Family claims painting by Wassily Kandinsky — owned by Robert Lewenstein during Nazi occupation — was illegally sold to Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1940 By TOI STAFF November 3rd, 6:37 pm "Painting with Houses" ("Bild mit Häusern"), a 1909 painting by Wassily Kandinsky. (Wikimedia Commons/PD-old-75) A Jewish family seeking the return of a painting acquired by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands has alleged bias by the cou

Restitutions committee members have links to the Stedelijk Museum, which houses the Kandinsky work Daniel Boffey in Brussels Mon 2 Nov 2020 05.30 GMT A Jewish family suing for the return of a €20m (£18m) painting by Wassily Kandinsky obtained by Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands has accused an official advisory committee of bias after ruling against them. Lawyers acting for the heirs to Robert Lewenstein, who fled for France in 1940, t

[THIS IS AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE ORIGINAL GERMAN ARTICLE "Erben fordern Rückgabe von Kandinsky-Gemälde" PUBLISHED ON THE SALZBURGER NACHRICHTEN WEBSITE ON OCTOBER 29, 2020] (https://www.sn.at/kultur/allgemein/erben-fordern-rueckgabe-von-kandinsky-gemaelde-94872073) ThursdayOctober 29, 2020 1:25 p.m. The heirs of the Jewish Lewenstein family have requested the return of a painting by Wassily Kandinsky in an Amsterdam court. The "picture with houses" (1909) was sold to th

Donnerstag29. Oktober 2020 13:25 Uhr Die Erben der jüdischen Familie Lewenstein haben vor einem Amsterdamer Gericht die Rückgabe eines Gemäldes von Wassily Kandinsky gefordert. Das "Bild mit Häusern" (1909) sei im Oktober 1940 unter Druck des Nazi-Regimes dem Stedelijk Museum verkauft worden. Es sei ein klarer Fall von Raubkunst, sagte der Anwalt der Erben, Axel Hagedorn, am Donnerstag vor Gericht. "Das Bild muss den Hinterbliebenen zurückgegeben werden." Das Bild war gemeins

[THIS IS AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE ORIGINAL DUTCH ARTICLE "Joodse erfgenamen versus Stedelijk Museum: ruzie over roofkunst" PUBLISHED ON THE DE TELEGRAAF WEBSITE ON OCTOBER 29, 2020] (https://www.telegraaf.nl/entertainment/742590633/joodse-erfgenamen-versus-stedelijk-museum-ruzie-over-roofkunst) By  ELINE VERBURG 29 Oct. 2020  in  CULTURE AMSTERDAM - Is the painting Bild mit Häuser (1909) by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky looted art, or was it fairly acquired by th

Door ELINE VERBURG 29 okt. 2020 in CULTUUR AMSTERDAM - Is het schilderij Bild mit Häuser (1909) van de Russische kunstenaar Wassily Kandinsky roofkunst, of is het door de gemeente Amsterdam eerlijk verworven op een veiling in oktober 1940? Op deze vraag proberen de erven van de voormalige eigenaren, het Joodse echtpaar Robert Lewenstein en Irma Klein, al sinds lang een bevredigend antwoord te krijgen. In het bindend advies van de Restitutiecommissie Ekkart uit 2018, dat ten