A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for $44.9 million. "Murnau mit Kirche II" ("Murnau with ...
An advisory panel for the German government has ruled that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky should be returned to the heirs of the Jewish family that owned it before it was auctioned off during World ...
(JTA) — A Dutch committee charged with assessing and acting on claims about artwork stolen from Jews before and during the Holocaust has determined that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky should be ...
A Nazi-looted Wassily Kandinsky painting could soon fetch $45 million at Sotheby’s London on March 1. Last fall, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, restituted the work to the heirs of ...
A painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby’s in London. Part of the auction house’s ...
This undated image, provided by the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, Germany, shows the 1907 painting "The Colorful Life" by Russian artist Kandinsky. An independent German commission is recommending the ...
Next month, an early masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born artist sometimes called the “father of abstract art,” will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London. Titled Murnau mit Kirche ...
The decisions of the government panel, which handles claims about art lost or looted in the Nazi-era, are not legally binding, but are nearly always followed. By Catherine Hickley The German ...
BERLIN — An independent German commission on Tuesday recommended that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank be returned to the heirs of a Jewish family that ...