{"id":397685,"date":"2025-09-04T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397685\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:25:16","slug":"looted-painting-recovered-after-daughter-of-fugitive-nazi-officer-posted-it-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397685\/","title":{"rendered":"Looted painting recovered after daughter of fugitive Nazi officer posted it online"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An 18th-century masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady by Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi, looted by the Nazis<\/a> during the Second World War, has been recovered in Argentina<\/a>, an Argentine federal court announced on Wednesday. The painting<\/a>, publicly presented in the coastal city of Mar del Plata, had not been seen in public for 80 years.<\/p>\n

Its whereabouts came to light last month when the first-ever colour photograph of the portrait surfaced in an online real estate listing. This listing was unwittingly posted by a daughter of Friedrich Kadgien, a fugitive Nazi officer accused of stealing the painting from one of Europe<\/a>\u2019s most prominent pre-war art dealers and collectors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing this simply so that the community to whom we partly owe the discovery of the work … can see these images,\u201d federal prosecutor Daniel Adler said in a press conference to display the full-length portrait of Countess Colleoni, her hair ink-black and dress embroidered with pastel flowers. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was people from the community, specifically journalists, who prompted the investigation,” Adler said.<\/p>\n

\"Prosecutor<\/p>\n

open image in gallery<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Daniel Adlers gives a press conference in front of \u2018Portrait of a Lady\u2019 in Mar del Plata, Wednesday, 3 September 2025 (Copyright 2025. The Associated Press. All rights reserved)<\/p>\n

Dutch<\/a> journalists made the shocking discovery while investigating Kadgien\u2019s past in Argentina<\/a>, where the high-ranking official fled after the collapse of the Third Reich<\/a> and later died in 1978. News of the find thrilled historians the world over and eventually reached the heirs of the painting\u2019s original owner, Dutch-Jewish<\/a> art collector Jacques Goudstikker. He died in a shipwreck after fleeing Amsterdam<\/a> ahead of advancing German troops in May 1940.<\/p>\n

His descendants have sought to recover an estimated 1,100 paintings missing since the forced sale of Goudstikker\u2019s extensive inventory to Adolf Hitler<\/a>\u2019s right-hand man, Hermann G\u00f6ring, who built up a major art collection during WWII<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The original appearance of \u201cPortrait of a Lady\u201d last week was fleeting. Within hours of the story\u2019s publication in Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad last Monday, the real estate listing was taken down. Police<\/a> raided the rustic Mar del Plata home of Patricia Kadgien, the Nazi officer\u2019s daughter, but the painting wasn\u2019t there. <\/p>\n

Authorities earlier this week conducted further raids on several homes belonging to the Kadgien sisters in Mar del Plata, seizing other paintings and engravings that they also suspect of having been stolen during the 1940s. <\/p>\n

Argentina\u2019s federal prosecutor\u2019s office said on Tuesday they had ordered the detention of Kadgien and her husband pending a hearing on charges of concealment and obstruction of justice. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

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The Ghislandi painting is displayed during a press conference (Copyright 2025. The Associated Press. All rights reserved)<\/p>\n

Adler, the prosecutor, told reporters that the couple\u2019s lawyer had handed over the painting to authorities earlier Wednesday. He did not give any indication of where the painting would go next. <\/p>\n

An art expert invited to assist with the investigation, Ariel Bassano, said the painting was being \u201cstored in a special chamber to prevent contact with external agents and, later, with either artificial or natural light, which could eventually damage it\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s in good condition given its age,\u201d Bassano said, dating the portrait to 1710 and valuing it at roughly $50,000.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear exactly how the painting came into the possession of Kadgien, who worked as a financial adviser to G\u00f6ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-397685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146963337191392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}