Emanuel Lewenstein

Emanuel Albert Lewenstein (5 December 1870 – 10 June 1930)[1] was a Dutch-Jewish art collector.

[2] Lewenstein bought Wassily Kandinsky's oil painting Das Bunte Leben (The Colourful Life) immediately after it was created in 1907.

[3] On 3 March 2017, three of his heirs filed suit in New York City against Bayerische Landesbank who believe they now own it, in respect of the painting, now valued at $80 million.

[3][4] The lawsuit claims that the painting was effectively taken and sold without permission, "The painting was taken from its legitimate owners in 1940 in violation of international law during the period of the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands in furtherance of the Nazi campaign of Jewish genocide".

[4] Das Bunte Leben is on show at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, in Munich, Germany.