The Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property, chaired by Prof. Hans-Jürgen Papier, decided on 16 May 2023 in the case of the heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann and Irma Lewenstein Klein versus Bayerische Landesbank, to recommend the restitution of the painting Das bunte Leben by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann and Irma Lewenstein Klein.
The subject of the proceedings is the painting Das bunte Leben [The Colorful Life] (1907) by Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), tempera on canvas, measuring 130 cm x 163 cm x 2.2 cm.
The painting was acquired by the Bayerische Landesbank in 1972 and has since been on loan to the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and the Kunstbau in Munich (FH 225). The claimants are the heirs after heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann and Irma Lewenstein Klein.