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.

The City of Amsterdam on Monday handed over a painting by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky to heirs of a Jewish couple who had sold it as they tried to escape the Netherlands after the Nazi ...

The city council will be asked to approve any agreement between the mayor and the heirs to turn over a painting, owned by a Jewish couple before the 1940 Nazi invasion.

Kandinsky’s “Bild mit Häusern (Painting with Houses)” (1909) has been owned by Amsterdam — which owns the Stedelijk Museum — since 1940.

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 ...

When Hitler came to power, in 1933, and closed that school, Kandinsky moved to Paris, where he died in 1944, just after the Allies liberated the city. Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions ...

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 ...

JTA — Following an international outcry, Amsterdam said its city-owned museum should return a Wassily Kandinsky painting that it had acquired from a Jewish family that was under duress during ...

Milwaukee, a city know for its beer and Germanic history, has one of the country’s best collections of work by Gabriele Münter, Kandinsky’s long-term partner, as well as his former student ...