US EditionNazi-Looted Ghislandi Portrait Spotted in Argentine Real Estate Listing
The painting, looted from Jacques Goudstikker's collection during Nazi occupation, was found in a home linked to Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien, underscoring ongoing restitution efforts.
- Journalists from the Dutch publication Algemeen Dagblad identified the Nazi-looted artwork 'Portrait of a Lady' by Giuseppe Ghislandi in a photograph featured in a 2025 Argentinian real estate advertisement.
- The painting was taken over 80 years ago during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands from the collection of Jacques Goudstikker, a prominent Jewish art dealer, and subsequently came into the possession of SS officer Friedrich Kadgien, who escaped to Argentina following World War II.
- The discovered painting hangs above a sofa in a house in Mar del Plata, put up for sale by one of Kadgien's daughters, while Argentine police and Interpol have launched a raid and search to recover it.
- Experts from the Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency, including Annelies Kool and Perry Schrier, verified the painting's genuineness and noted that recovering such pieces is uncommon, while descendant Marei von Saher emphasized her family's commitment to restoring all artworks taken from the Goudstikker collection.
- The ongoing investigation and international cooperation highlight the challenges of Nazi-looted art restitution decades after the war and suggest renewed hope for returning missing cultural property to rightful heirs.
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An Italian painting stolen from the Nazis during the Second World War was found on the website of an Argentine real estate agency. The story, which goes through decades and the ocean, was reported by the Guardian starting from the work of investigation of the Dutch newspaper AD (Algemeen Dagblad). Portrait of a lady, the Contessa Colleoni, this is the canvas of the late Baroque portrait artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, also known as Fr. Galgario, who …
The ancient painting Portrait of a Lady, by the Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi (1655-1743), which was allegedly stolen by the Nazi regime in the 1940s, was identified in photos published by a real estate company in Argentina.
A photo on a real estate site found an 18th-century Italian portrait, missing since a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam was forced to brade it in 1940.
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Radio France InternationaleArgentina hunts Nazi-looted painting revealed in property ad
Argentine police hunted Wednesday for a 17th century painting which was allegedly stolen by the Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector and resurfaced this week in a property ad, only to disappear again.
Argentina searches for a painting allegedly looted by a Nazi fugitive and spotted in an ad
Argentine police continued their hunt Wednesday for a 18th-century Italian portrait believed to have been looted 80 years ago from a Jewish collector by a fugitive Nazi officer who settled in Argentina after World War II.
Nazi-Looted Painting Spotted in Argentina, Missing Again Before Police Raid
The Nazi-looted Portrait of a Lady was discovered in an Argentine property listing. Credit: Robles Casas & Campos Police in Argentina are pressing on with the search for a Nazi-looted painting that surfaced in an estate agent’s listing but was not found during a raid on a seaside property in Mar del Plata. Federal prosecutor Carlos Martínez confirmed that the artpiece, the Portrait of a Lady by Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi, was not inside t…
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