US EditionArgentina orders house arrest for daughter of Nazi fugitive over plundered portrait
Authorities placed the daughter and husband of Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien under house arrest amid investigation into an 80-year-old missing painting seized during World War II.
- A judge in Mar del Plata ordered 72-hour house arrest for Kadgien and her partner on suspicion of obstructing a police investigation into a stolen painting.
- The painting, believed to be Portrait of a Lady, was recently spotted in Kadgien's home after being identified in a photo by a Dutch newspaper.
- The heirs of Jacques Goudstikker are determined to recover the stolen painting, which is listed on an international registry of missing artworks.
- Authorities have seized two additional artworks from another daughter of Kadgien, while a prosecutor's investigation is ongoing.
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The Nazi financial expert once brought the image stolen from a Jewish gallery owner to Argentina. His daughter must return it now. She and her husband are under house arrest for the time being.
The portrait of the Contessa Colleoni was lost for 80 years. In a real estate ad it appeared again. Against the daughter of a Nazi functionary is determined.
The painting surfaced last week in a photo on an Argentinian real estate website.
Somehow artwork looted by the Nazis turned up in an Argentinian home
Surprise! Missing artwork looted by the Nazis turned up in photos for a real estate listing in the seaside town of Mar de Plata. The for-sale notice revealed what is believed to be the Ghislandi painting in the house of Friedrich Kadgien, a financial adviser to Adolf Hitler's right-hand man and an art aficionado who plundered paintings taken from Jewish-owned galleries in Nazi-occupied Europe, according to The Associated Press. — Read the rest …
An 18th-century canvas confiscated during the Nazi era, which was recently spotted in a photo in a real estate ad in Argentina and then "disappeared", has led a court there to order house arrest for the daughter of a former SS man and her husband.
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