The original owner was businessman Otto Nathan Deutsch, who fled from Frankfurt to Amsterdam just before the outbreak of World War II.
The painting was then handed over to a German removal company, which later falsely claimed it had been destroyed in a bombing raid.
In the early 1990s, the heirs requested from the Moderna Museet that the painting be returned in accordance with the Washington Principles.
[2] In a press release on September 9, 2009, Moderna Museet announced that it had reached an agreement between the museum and the heirs of Otto Nathan Deutsch regarding Blumengarten.
The painting had been purchased by a private European collector and then loaned to Moderna Museet for up to five years.