The city of Amsterdam has decided to return Wassily Kandinsky’s “Picture with Houses” to the heirs of the Jewish Lewenstein family, who owned the work until it was auctioned off in 1940 in occupied Amsterdam. This was preceded by a lengthy dispute in which the Dutch Restitution Commission in the meantime came to the – then heavily criticized – result that the interests of the public in seeing the painting in the city’s Stedelijk Museum outweighed those of the heirs. The city is now distancing itself from this with the return offer. The heirs’ representative, James Palmer of the Mondex agency, said the family plans to put the painting in a Jewish museum for the time being. The Amsterdam decision could have an impact on a similar case in the Lenbachhaus in Munich, which is currently being discussed by the German Limbach Commission. This is Kandinsky’s main work “The Colorful Life”, which also comes from the Lewensteins’ property.