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Kandinsky painting seized by Nazis to be returned to Jewish owners

A painting by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky is set to be returned to its Jewish owners after being seized by Nazis during the Holocaust.

The 1927 painting entitled The Colourful Life was originally owned by a Jewish couple living in Amsterdam, Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann and Irma Lewenstein Klein. 

A German commission investigating the matter concluded that “the painting was seized as a result of persecution,” and that the Jewish couple in Amsterdam “were persecuted as Jews” in 1940 when the Nazis occupied the Netherlands.

The painting is currently in the possession of the Bavarian state bank.

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