Nazi-Looted Painting Found in Home of SS Collaborator's Descendant
- 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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In the Netherlands, a painting has appeared that Göring robbed from the collection of a Jewish art dealer. The find shows once again: NS-Raubkunst in Privatbesitz is still a mass phenomenon.
The art world has gained a spectacular new case: In the Netherlands, a painting stolen by the Nazis from the collection of the Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker has resurfaced.
The art world has gained a spectacular new case: In the Netherlands, a painting stolen by the Nazis from the collection of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker has surfaced in the home of descendants of a notorious SS collaborator.
A painting stolen from Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker hung in the home of a Dutch SS leader's family until yesterday. It was only after a family member brought the story to the media that the family finally returned Toon Kelder's work, 'Portrait of a Young Girl', yesterday.
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