Wassily Kandinsky

Amsterdam to return Kandinsky painting to Jewish family following outcry

Following an international outcry, Amsterdam said its city-owned museum should return a Wassily Kandinsky painting that it had acquired from a Jewish family during the Holocaust.

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THE KANDINSKY painting ‘Noisy Surroundings.’
Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019.

Amsterdam mayor wants city's museum to return $22m Nazi-looted painting

“Returning this artwork will mean a lot to the victims and is important for acknowledging the injustice perpetrated,” Halsema wrote.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is keeping a Kandinsky whose Jewish owners were forced to sell

The family of Irma Klein got restitution officials to recognize that the Nazi occupation forced her to sell the painting, but they also determined that it should not be returned.

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