Nazi-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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Nazi-Looted Painting Disappears After Being Spotted in Argentine Home
A Dutch newspaper said this week that it discovered a Nazi-looted painting from the Baroque era in a real estate listing for a home in Argentina. Not long afterward, the painting disappeared, triggering a police investigation. Algemeen Dagblad reported that the painting, a portrait of a woman, was by Giuseppe Ghislandi, an artist who also went by the name Fra Galgario and is today known for its contributions to the late Baroque period in Italy…
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 …
'Dama photo' by Giuseppe Ghislandi appears in a photo on the sale of a house near Buenos Aires
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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