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Update 05/2019: Year 3 begins! I'm living in Bremerhaven near the North Sea since October...
@stephanies I've been to see the Kandinsky section of the Lenbachhaus. Lately we got another discussion about Raubkunst (Nazi plunder) here, as his important painting 'Colourful Life' belonged to the Jewish family Lewenstein. They lived in the Netherlands, when in 1940 at first the painting disappeared, then it showed up at an auction and another Jewish man bought it for almost nothing. Nobody knows if the family had to give it away or if it was stolen. The Bavarian State Bank bought it in 1973, from the widow of the 1940s buyer - unaware of it's history. Maybe they didn't know, maybe they didn't want to. Most members of the Lewenstein family were killed in Auschwitz. Those who live today now want either the painting back or 80 million US Dollar. They are at court at the moment. If it belongs to them, I want them to have it back; but I also wanted to see it again - that was one of the main reasons why I went there yesterday.
Thanks Marie, for writing this up, I would like to know the outcome of the court case. I have never heard of this painting so I googled it because I wanted to see how it looks, wow, what an amazing picture, so many different stories in one scene, I can understand why you would like to see this again. I would like to know please how big is the painting Marie?
@stephanies it's 1.3 × 1.6 metres (51 x 63 inches), so it's really big. It is hanging quite on it's own. It's amazing, because for me (but I'm not an art historian) it seems so different from his other paintings I had seen before: In the Colourful Life all figures are recognisable - e.g. in his All Saints II painting I had to look very hard to *see* the beginning and and the end of one figure or another. I liked his view on Russian society, it' s interesting to see what people like him thought of his country just before or while it was turning over its political system
Thanks Marie for the extra information I have never heard of this artist before now, so I am glad to be enlightened. I had no idea the painting was so big either. Must be so wonderful to see it.
I was so excited to see Frauenkirche without the ever-present scaffolding -- or so it seemed from a distance. But when I get up close, I see it's still there :)
