[1] Lewenstein-Weyermann had two siblings, Victor (born August 6, 1872)[2] and Mathilde Citroen (Weijermann, also known as "Weyermann" (February 3, 1874 in Bonn - September 24, 1946 in Heemstede).
When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, the German and Dutch Lewenstein family was persecuted because of their Jewish heritage.
Lewenstein-Weyermann's daughter Wilhelmine emigrated with her husband José da Silva via the Netherlands to Mozambique in 1938.
[8] On 9 October 1940 Das bunte Leben was acquired by Salomon B. Slijper whose widow sold it in 1972 to the Bayerische Landesbank.
The bank loaned it to the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and the Kunstbau in Munich where it was located at the time of the claim.