Follow the reported rejection of a restitution challenge and the later Amsterdam settlement concerning a Kandinsky painting. The court report and settlement describe different legal stages; the later return should be understood in that sequence rather than inferred from the earlier decision alone.
2 reports · Source dates: 16 Dec 2020 — 28 Feb 2022
Each entry reflects its source on the stated date. A historical theft report does not mean a work remains missing. Attributions, allegations and decisions remain distinct; this dossier does not authenticate artworks.
Amsterdam returned Wassily Kandinsky’s Bild mit Häusern (1909) to the Lewenstein family’s heirs on 28 February 2022. After a prolonged dispute and earlier decisions against restitution, the parties agreed a settlement in light of revised restitution guidelines. This was an agreed return, not a new judgment reversing the 2020 ruling.
On 16 December 2020, Amsterdam’s court rejected the Lewenstein heirs’ civil challenge to the binding restitution opinion on Wassily Kandinsky’s Bild mit Häusern. The court found no sufficiently serious defects to annul that opinion. This records the procedural stage on the source date; a separate entry covers the agreed restitution in 2022.