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Amsterdam Will Return a Long-Disputed Wassily Kandinsky Painting at the Stedelijk to the Heirs of Its Original Owners
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April 20, 2021
Mia Locks at the Whitney Biennial opening night in 2017. Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Tiffany & Co.
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Dutch Museum Defies Government to Settle With Collector’s Heirs – In a sign of shifting attitudes toward restitution in the Netherlands, the Museum de Fundatie has overturned a 2013 decision by the Dutch Restitution Committee and compensated the heir to a 1635 painting in its collection, Bernardo Strozzi’s
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.