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Bavarian Commission Concludes Wassily Kandinsky Painting Should Be Returned To Jewish Family

  • German commission recommends return of Kandinsky painting to Jewish family heirs
  • Painting currently owned by Bavarian state bank
  • Commission advises return of "The Colorful Life" to heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann and Irma Lewenstein Klein
  • Painting was part of Lewenstein family's extensive art collection and was auctioned off in 1940 during Nazi occupation of Netherlands
  • Commission concludes painting was seized as a result of persecution and there is no evidence to support the assumption that Irma Lewenstein Klein arranged for the painting to be handed over of her own free will.
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