by In Argentina, a painting from a Jewish collector in World War II was discovered in Argentina after the daughter of a high -ranking Nazi made her home for sale.
More than 80 years after the theft, the portrait of a lady of the Italian painter Ghiseppe Ghislandi was hanging in a photo on a real estate advertising above a sofa in the lady’s living room.
The painting was stolen from hundreds or bought under compulsion from the collection of Jacques Goudstikker, a successful art dealer from Amsterdam, who helped other Jews to flee from the Nazis. The collector died at sea when he fled to Great Britain on a cargo ship and is buried in Falmouth.
At least 800 pieces from Mr. Goudstikker’s collection were stolen by Hermann Goering, the head of the Air Force and a well -known art collector.
In the early 2000s, around 200 were returned to works of art that were stolen by the Nazis as part of a Dutch state investigation. But hundreds, including portrait of a lady, were lost.
Hermann Goering, the head of the Air Force, was an enthusiastic art collector – Photoquest
The portrait has now been attributed to the family of Friedrich Kadgien, a financial advisor from Gaering, at an examination by AD, a Dutch newspaper.
The revelation is thanks to one of the daughters of the Nazi who puts her house for sale. Interior photos show the stolen painting on the Argentine website of a real estate agent.
The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni, is on the international list of lost art and the official Dutch list of works of art that are looted by the Nazis.
Experts have checked pictures that were shared on the Robles Casas & Campos website, a real estate agent specializing in high -quality Argentine properties, and believe that the painting corresponds to the known dimensions and colors of the work of the Italian painter.
“There is no reason to think about why this could be a copy,” said Annelies Kool and Perry Schrier from the Netherlands cultural engineering agency (RCE).
“The dimensions also seem to correspond to the information we have. The final confirmation can be made by considering the back of the painting. There can still be markings or lettering that confirm the origin.”
A journalist of the AD tried to contact the Nazi official’s daughter, who is owned by the artwork.
“I don’t know what information you want from me and I don’t know which painting you talk about,” she replied.
As a right man of Going, Kadgien was commissioned to finance the Nazi war machine, often by the theft of art and diamonds of Jewish dealers in the Netherlands. After the war, like many of his Nazi colleagues, Kadgia fled to Argentina, where he died in 1979.
Friedrich Kadgien, financial advisor of Goerings, fled to South America after the war and died in Argentina in 1979
Before he ended up in South America, he slipped into Switzerland, where he convinced the authorities and American officials that he was not a real Nazi.
The Americans described him as “not a real Nazi, but as a queue of the lowest species” with “large assets, [who] Can still be worth it for us ”, according to information that was later published from the CIA archives.
Now the whereabouts of the painting are known.
“My search for the works of art that belonged to my father -in -law Jacques Goudstikker began at the end of the 90s and I will not give up,” said Marei von Saer, 81, ad. “My family aims to bring back every individual work of art that is robbed of the collection of Jacques and restore its legacy.”
Details on Goudstikkers inventory of art were kept in a small black book that he took on this fateful journey in May 1940 when the Netherlands fell under the nazis. It was known that he had walked on the SS Bodegraven at night when he fell an open harbor into the hull of the ship.
The brochure was discovered by his surviving wife Desi and her only son Edo, who finally made it to the USA.
Regardless of this, researchers of the RCE have found another missing painting by Abraham Mignon, a Dutch still life painter from the 17th century, on a social media page of other daughter.
The painting of the flowers also appears on the list of the organization’s stolen art, but its experts do not yet have to pursue the possession.
