David Rowland, a lawyer who secured the recovery of hundreds of looted artworks for the heirs of Jewish collectors who had been persecuted by the Nazis, challenging some of the world’s leading museums in doing so, died on August 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 67.

Among Mr. Rowland’s high profile successes was the 2006 recovery of “Berlin Street Scene,” a 1913 painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, from the Brucke Museum in Berlin. In 2020, he secured the return of 200 prints and drawings by Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch and Marc Chagall, among other artists, from the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland. Following the return of “Berlin Street Scene,” Ronald Lauder, an heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune, purchased the painting for $38 million.