The German government’s advisory panel on Nazi-looted art has recommended that a vibrant tempera painting by Wassily Kandinsky be returned to the heirs of a Jewish family who suffered persecution under the Nazis in the Netherlands during WWII.

The painting, “Colorful Life,” was part of an extensive art collection belonging to Emanuel Albert Lewenstein. It is thought to have been on loan from the family to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam when the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940. Since 1972, it has been hanging in the Städtische Galerie in Lenbachhaus in Munich.

In 2021, the Lewenstein heirs recovered another Kandinsky work, “Painting With Houses,” which ended a bitter dispute between the heirs and the city of Amsterdam.