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The Heirs to a Jewish Collector Are Appealing a Decision Allowing the Stedelijk to Keep a Kandinsky Painting It Acquired During World War II
Some Dutch officials have decried the decision to favor the museum.
Painting with Houses (Bild mit Häusern) (1909). Courtesy of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
The heirs of a Jewish collector are lodging an appeal against the Dutch Restitutions Commission’s decision to allow the Stedelijk Museum to keep a Wassily Kandinsky painting in its collection.
The museum acquired the work, a 1909 landscape painting titled
Bild mit Häuser, from a Jewish collection in 1940, during World War II. The heirs of collector Robert Lewenstein and his wife Irma Klein came together to make an application for the painting, which the Dutch Restitution Committee denied in 2018.
YORKSHIRE-BORN novelist and poet Helen Cox lives in Roker on the North-East coast. She was born in Northallerton in 1981 and subsequently lived both on the Solway coast and in Thirsk. Helen has had numerous jobs in a range of fields including banking, hospitality, sports leisure, fashion retail, copywriting and secondary education, but now writes full-time while teaching the odd online course for the creative writing department at City Lit college in London. Helen and her husband, who works at the National Archives, are awaiting their first foster dog from Guide Dogs UK, with a little bundle of fur expected to arrive in April.