Some experts believe this 17th-century work now up for sale was originally stolen by the Nazis, but no clues to its prewar owner have turned up in years of searching.
On Tuesday, the German restitution committee ruled that the Bayerische Landesbank must return the painting Das bunte Leben (1907) by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of the Lewenstein family. The family from Amsterdam owned the painting before the Nazis took it in the Second World War, Parool reports.
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The decisions of the government panel, which handles claims about art lost or looted in the Nazi-era, are not legally binding, but are nearly always followed.