The German bank acquired “Colorful Life” from the widow of the collector who had bought it at the 1940 auction. It was purchased at the request of the city of Munich and the Lenbachhaus museum.

A state-owned bank in Bavaria announced on Monday that it would return a masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky that has hung in a German museum since 1972 to the descendants of a Jewish family that ...

A painting by the pioneering Russian-born modernist Wassily Kandinsky sold for 37.2 million pounds, or about $45 million, at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday evening during a marquee week of ...

In September 2022, the Wassily Kandinsky painting "View of Murnau with Church" was returned to the descendants of a Jewish art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust.

A Kandinsky painting called "Murnau with Church II“ sold for $44.9 million in London. The painting has been at a Dutch museum for decades after the owner was killed in the Holocaust.

Members of staff hold the painting ” Murnau with Church II” by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky in 1910 is on display during a media preview of Sotheby’s auction, in London on Feb. 22, 2023.

In 2018, the Commission ruled that Kandinsky’s Painting with Houses (1909) should remain in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam due to its “significant place” in the museum collection since 1940.

Relatives of murdered Auschwitz victim Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann will regain 'View of Murnau with Church,' displayed in the Dutch city of Eindhoven's art museum since 1951 ...

A Landmark Kandinsky With a Troubled Past Is in the Spotlight, Again. The abstract work was looted by the Nazis, displayed in a Dutch museum and finally returned to its owners.

Kandinsky was known to be jealous and at times patronizing when Münter went her own way. In 1906, when the couple arrived in Paris, she was enchanted and rented a home outside the city.

Kandinsky was too much in thrall to the tenets of Theosophy to transcend his own evangelical willfulness or, in the later paintings, to come out from underneath them to play. Mondrian may have been ...