Stedelijk director David Röell acquired this painting in October 1940, at an auction held by Frederik Muller & Co. in Amsterdam. According to the auction catalogue, the work was part of the “Estate L., Amsterdam.” Research into its provenance by the Stedelijk Museum showed that Hedwig Lewenstein-Weijermann, a Jewish woman, had inherited the painting in 1930 from her husband, Emanuel Albert Lewenstein, who had owned the painting since 1923. It was unclear who exactly had put t

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, visitors queue to enter the modern and contemporary art museum, Stedelijk Museum, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam municipality said Friday Aug. 27, 2021, it will return the valuable "Painting With Houses" artwork by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned it, ending years of legal wrangling over the work that was sold at auction in 1940. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE) Mike Corder, The A

“Painting with Houses” by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky on display in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Photographer: Ramon Van Flymen/EPAEFE/ Shutterstock THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (MIKE CORDER) August 27, 2021, 8:36 AM EDT Updated on August 27, 2021, 11:21 AM EDT The Hague, Netherlands (AP) -- Amsterdam says it will return a valuable painting by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned it, ending years of legal wrangling over the work that was

BY THE EDITORS OF ARTNEWS August 27, 2021 8:34am THERE IS A NEW CHAPTER IN A CHARGED CASE. The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, has entered into talks about returning a Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of a Jewish couple who sold it in 1940, the New York Times reports. It is currently housed at the city’s Stedelijk Museum. The fate of the painting has been watched as an indicator of the status of Nazi-era restitution claims in the Netherlands. In 2018, a government commission

The city council will be asked to approve any agreement between the mayor and the heirs to turn over a painting, owned by a Jewish couple before the 1940 Nazi invasion. By Colin Moynihan Aug. 26, 2021 The mayor of Amsterdam announced on Thursday that she had begun discussions to turn over a painting by the Russian abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of a Jewish couple who had owned the work before the Nazi takeover of the Netherlands. The work, “Painting With House

The painting was auctioned for a song on October 9, 1940, months after the Nazis took the Netherlands, and is considered a "forced sale" By Senay Boztas AMSTERDAM 27 August 2021 • 2:47pm A €20-million Kandinsky painting at the heart of a decade-long Dutch legal battle will finally be returned to the heirs of its original Jewish owners, righting a "historical injustice" 80 years after the family "sold" the artwork during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The colourful, 1