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- ↑ "The Advisory Commission recommends to the Bayerische Landesbank to restitute Das bunte Leben by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann and Irma Lewenstein Klein" (PDF). beratende-kommission.de.
The Advisory Commission is of the opinion that the painting was seized as a result of persecution. The Lewenstein family and Irma Lewenstein Klein were persecuted as Jews by the National Socialists from the beginning of the German occupation of the Netherlands on 10 May 1940.