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.
This article reviews the most common issues in art disputes in Netherlands, including with regard to title in art, cultural property, limitation periods and alternative dispute resolution.
Relatives of murdered Auschwitz victim Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann will regain 'View of Murnau with Church,' displayed in the Dutch city of Eindhoven's art museum since 1951
Dutch court reverses earlier ruling, returning work of art by world-famous Russian painter to descendants of Jewish art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust