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Portrait Looted by Nazis Found in Home of Dutch SS Leader's Descendants
Arthur Brand said the family member wants public exposure to help return the looted Toon Kelder painting to the Goudstikker heirs.
- On Monday, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand announced the discovery of a Nazi-looted painting from the Goudstikker collection held by the heirs of a Dutch Waffen-SS general in the Netherlands.
- Nazi official Hermann Goering seized the entire Goudstikker collection in 1940 when dealer Jacques Goudstikker fled to England; Brand believes collaborator Seyffardt acquired the painting at that 1940 auction.
- The looted artwork, "Portrait of a Young Girl" by Toon Kelder, currently hangs in the hallway of the granddaughter of Seyffardt, a high-ranking collaborator assassinated by Dutch resistance fighters in 1943.
- Lawyers for the Goudstikker heirs are demanding the painting's return, though police are powerless due to the statute of limitations; a family member hopes public exposure will facilitate restitution.
- Brand, known as the "Indiana Jones of the Art World," said this discovery surpasses his previous recoveries from institutions like the Louvre, mirroring a 2025 Nazi-looted art find in Argentina.
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Collaborator Seyffardt bought it at an auction with canvases offered by Hermann Göring, art detective Arthur Brand believes.
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Nazi-looted portrait found in home of Dutch SS leader's family
THE HAGUE: An artwork plundered by the Nazis from the world-famous Goudstikker collection has surfaced in the family of a notorious SS collaborator in the Netherlands, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand told AFP Monday.
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