Image source, Robles Casas & Campos
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- Author, Tom Mcartur
- Author's title, BBC News
A picture stolen by the Nazis to a merchant of Jewish art in Amsterdam was located on the website of a real estate agency that sells a house in Argentina, more than 80 years after its disappearance.
One of the photographs of the announcement shows the portrait of a lady of the Italian teacher Giuseppe Ghislandi (1655-1743) hung on a sofa inside a house in Mar del Plata, a city about 400 kilometers south of the city of Buenos Aires.
The house was owned by the SS officer and high financial advisor to the war criminal Hermann Göring, Friedrich Kadgien, who moved to South America after World War II.
The painting, which appears in an art database lost of war times, was located when the house was put on sale by the official's daughter, according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD).
The real estate company that published the announcement on the sale of the property kept it on its website until Monday, when it withdrew it after the research of the newspaper AD was propagated.
The next day, the Argentine justice raided the house, but the painting was no longer.
“There is not the painting, only a carbine and a 32 -caliber revolver was kidnapped,” prosecutor Carlos Martínez told the local press after leaving Father Cardiel to 4100.
Judicial officials hope that the owners of the house, Patricia Kadgien – a 59 -year -old textile businesswoman – and her husband, appear before the courts soon.
The art work is among the hundreds of objects looted to the art merchant Jacques Goudstikker, who helped other Jews to escape during the war.
Goudstikker died in an accident on a ship while escaping from the Netherlands and is buried in England.
After his death, more than 1,100 works from the Goudstikker collection were acquired in a sale forced by Nazi leaders, including the Marshal of Reich Hermann Göring.
After the war, some works were recovered in Germany and exhibited at the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam as part of the Dutch national collection.
The only surviving heiress of Goudstikker, his daughter -in -law Marei von Saher, recovered 202 pieces in 2006, according to AD.
But a painting, a portrait of Countess Colleoni made by the late baroque portrait Giuseppe Ghislandi, remained missing so far.
Image source, Wikimedia Commons
An Adm's investigation brought to light documents from the time of war that suggest that the painting was in possession of Friedrich Kadgien, who was considered as Göring's right hand.
The Nazi official fled to Switzerland in 1945, then moved to Brazil, before finishing in Argentina, where he became a successful businessman.
Kadgien was described as a “snake of the lowest calaña” by American interrogators and died in 1979.
An American file seen by AD also indicates that Kadgien notes of the time include the phrase: “It seems to have substantial assets, which could still be valuable.”
A blow of luck
The news newspaper says that for several years he has tried to talk about Kadgien with the two daughters of the late Nazi leader in Buenos Aires and about missing works of art, but without success.
However, journalists had a blow of luck when one of Kadgien's daughters put the house for sale, which was owned by the Nazi, through a realized real estate agent specialized in Argentine faces.
“There are no reasons to think that it can be a copy,” said Annelies Kool and Perry Schrier, of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE), who reviewed the photographs for AD.
Another stolen work of art, a floral still life of the 17th -century Dutch painter Abraham Mignon, was also seen in one of the sister's social networks, AD.
All attempts to talk to the sisters since the photo was seen have failed, according to AD, and one of them told the newspaper: “I don't know what information about me and I don't know what painting they are talking about.”
Goudstikker's heritage lawyers said they would do everything possible to recover paint.
“My family aspires to recover each of the stolen works of art from the Jacques collection and restore its legacy,” said Von Saher.
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