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1909
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Painting with Houses (English)
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Bild mit Häusern (German)
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Schilderij met huizen (Dutch)
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5 February 2021
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The descendants of a Jewish art collector have filed a lawsuit seeking the return of Wassily Kandinsky’s Painting with Houses (Bild mit Häusern) (1909) from the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.The city-owned museum purchased the painting at auction in Amsterdam in October 1940. The work found its way to the block under mysterious circumstances, leading the heirs to believe that the sale was involuntarily made under duress from occupying Nazi forces.In 2018, the Netherlands’ Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications investigated the case and found that the Stedelijk was not obligated to return the painting.The new lawsuit disputes that opinion, which is binding. (English)
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2022
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A prized painting by Russian master Wassily Kandinsky that was sold under duress during World War II has been returned to the descendants of its former Jewish owners.The oil painting, Bild mit Häusern (Painting with Houses), was just one of a treasured art collection inherited by Robert Lewenstein and his wife Irma Klein, which, at one point, also included works by Van Gogh, Renoir and Rembrandt. But the pair was forced to auction off the Kandinsky painting in October 1940 as they fled the Nazis five months after they invaded the Netherlands.Records show the director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum bought the Kandinsky for a fraction of its value at the time. (English)
1 March 2022
Painting with Houses - Wassily Kandinsky
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