Disputed Kandinsky won't be returned to Jewish heirs A court has decided that an Amsterdam museum can keep a painting sold by the Lewenstein family during Nazi occupation, raising questions about art restitution. Kandinsky's 'Painting With Houses' An Amsterdam court has ruled on Wednesday that the city’s Stedelijk Museum does not have to return the 1909 painting by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of its original Jewish owners. The work by the avant-garde artist, titled Painting with Houses, was sold to the museum in October 1940, five months after the German Wehrmacht took over the Netherlands. The Amsterdam art museum bought