Kandinsky Painting Recommended for Return to Jewish Heirs by German Panel.
The German government's advisory panel on Nazi-looted art has recommended that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky, "Colorful Life," be returned to the heirs of a Jewish family who suffered persecution under the Nazis in the Netherlands during World War II. The painting was part of an extensive art collection belonging to Emanuel Albert Lewenstein and his wife, Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann, and was auctioned off in 1940. The painting has been hanging in a museum in Munich since 1972, on loan from a state-owned bank, BayernLB. The bank has not committed to following the panel's recommendation, which is not legally binding.