{"id":217001,"date":"2025-09-11T01:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217001\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T01:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:53:14","slug":"after-nazi-looted-art-surfaces-in-argentina-experts-warn-van-gogh-raphael-and-other-works-still-being-hoarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217001\/","title":{"rendered":"After Nazi looted art surfaces in Argentina, experts warn Van Gogh, Raphael and other works still being hoarded"},"content":{"rendered":"

A real estate listing <\/a>in Argentina shook the art world last month when it revealed a painting hanging in pride of place in the living room was actually an Italian Old Master stolen by the Nazis.<\/p>\n

Art buffs say it highlights how other important works by luminaries including Vincent Van Gogh, Raphael and Monet suffered the same fate and are still being illegally hoarded by non-rightful owners.<\/p>\n

The Argentine artwork \u2014 \u201cPortrait of a Lady\u201d by 18th century Italian artist Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi \u2014 could be worth more than $500,000.<\/p>\n

It went \u201cmissing\u201d at the end of the Second World War and turned up in the seaside resort home of Patricia Kadgien, daughter of Nazi officer Friedrich Gustav Kadgien.<\/p>\n

The real estate ad which shows the Italian Old Master work above the sofa in the home of Patricia Kadgien, daughter of Nazi officer Friedrich Gustav Kadgien. Robles Casas & Campos<\/p>\n

In addition to that painting, Argentine authorities found 22 other works<\/a>, including some by Henri Matisse, during multiple raids on homes connected to Patricia Kadgien.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a lot of Nazi looted art throughout the world that has been concealed from public view,\u201d said Jonathan Petropoulos, a professor of European history at Claremont McKenna College in California and the author of the 2021 book \u201cGoering\u2019s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

He commended the find \u2014 by dogged Dutch investigative journalist Cyril Rosman, who has spent a decade searching for the storied collection of Dutch art dealer Jacques Goudstikker \u2014 but the picture is just one of an estimated 100,000 valuable works of art looted by the Nazis which remain unaccounted for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been restitution claims for famous artworks in museums, but a far greater number of looted and non-restituted works remain in private hands around the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Among the most valuable missing works is Raphael\u2019s \u201cPortrait of a Young Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Argentine police officials also seized 22 other works in raids. Among the works were pieces attributed to French artist Henri Matisse. Policia Federal Argentina.<\/p>\n

That piece, painted by the Italian master between 1513 and 1514, was looted by the Nazis from the Princes Czatroyski Museum in Krakow, Poland and was last seen at a German castle in 1945, according to a list of missing Nazi loot compiled by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation,<\/a> a nonprofit that works to help recover art stolen by the Nazis.<\/p>\n

Individual works by Raphael have sold at auction for tens of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Many paintings by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele are also missing, including \u201cBoats Mirrored in the Water,\u201d one of more than 80 of the artist\u2019s works expropriated by the Nazis from their owner, the Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grunbaum,<\/a> according to the foundation.<\/p>\n

Raphael\u2019s \u201cPortrait of a Young Man\u201d was last seen in 1945, and could be worth tens of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Grunbaum died at the Dachau concentration camp in 1941. Recently recovered Schiele works have also fetched millions at auction.<\/p>\n

In addition, Vincent van Gogh\u2019s \u201cThe Painter on the Way to Tarascon,\u201d is missing. It was painted in 1888 and last seen in 1945 at the Neu-Stassfurt salt mine, where the Nazis stored stolen works to protect them from Allied bombing raids.<\/p>\n

The painting by the Dutch master could fetch more than $100 million. \u201cOrchard with Cypresses,\u201d painted in the same year by Van Gogh fetched $117 million at auction \u2014 a record for the artist \u2014 in 2022.<\/p>\n

Some of the other missing paintings include works by some of the most recognizable names in 19th and 20th century art, including Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin,Claude Monet and Camille Pissaro.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoats Mirrored in the Water,\u201d by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele was part of the collection belonging to Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grunbaum who was killed at the Dachau concentration camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Painter on the Way to Tarascon\u201d by Vincent Van Gogh was last seen in 1945 in a German salt mine where it was stored along with thousands of other looted works by the Nazis.<\/p>\n

Although most of the pillaging was conducted by high-ranking officials, such as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Gestapo head Hermann Goering, some pieces were also taken by lower ranking functionaries, Petropoulos said.<\/p>\n

He helped compile the list of missing artworks stolen by the Nazis for the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets, created by President Bill Clinton in 2000. The commission found the Nazis stole more than 600,000 artworks during their 12 years in power.<\/p>\n

\u201cPortrait of a Lady\u201d was in the collection of Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam whose trove of\u00a01,300<\/strong>\u00a0works was looted when the German army invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, according to historians.<\/p>\n

It was acquired by Kadgien in 1944 from the Goudstikker gallery in Amsterdam. At that time he was in charge of securing stolen Jewish assets to sell and rebuild Germany\u2019s military arsenal.<\/p>\n

Allied forces recovered some of the art stolen by the Nazis before and during the Second World War. Experts say that 100,000 works of art are still \u201cmissing.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n

Patricia Kadgien was arrested after she allegedly tried to conceal the 18th century painting that a Dutch journalist traced to her home after seeing it in a real estate ad. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Goudstikker died after a shipboard accident when he tried to flee to England in May, 1940.<\/p>\n

Kadgien\u2019s daughter Patricia, 59, and her husband Juan Carlos Cortegoso,62, were charged by local authorities with \u201cconcealment\u201d of the artwork earlier this month after they allegedly hid it, replacing it with a tapestry following inquiries by Rosman.<\/p>\n

Friedrich Gustav Kadgien fled to Switzerland, Brazil and Argentina. He established companies in South America and owned a massive cattle ranch.<\/p>\n

Their lawyer then handed over the painting to authorities last week, according to press reports.<\/p>\n

Still, Kadgien and her husband face up to six years in prison if they are found guilty of hiding the works.<\/p>\n

Kadgien fled Germany after the war, escaping to Switzerland and then South America with the help of business associates.<\/p>\n

By the early 1950s, he was living in Argentina along with Nazi war criminals Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele \u2014 all of them protected by the regime of fascist leader Juan Peron and by 1954 he had a 200,000 acre ranch with a herd of 20,000 cattle.<\/p>\n

Kadgien became an Argentine citizen and lived under his real name. He also had numerous business dealings with the Argentine government and <\/a>helped Germans move stolen assets out of the country, according to a Swiss commission set up in 1996 to examine the country\u2019s role during the Second World War.<\/p>\n

Argentine Prosecutors with the portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Ghislandi, which was recovered from the private residence in the country\u2019s Mar del Plata seaside location. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Police raided Patricia Kadgien\u2019s home in Mar del Plata, in search of Nazi looted art earlier this month. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He also sold armaments to the Brazilian military government and helped to fund coups in both Guatemala and Colombia<\/a> in the early 1950s. He died in 1978.<\/p>\n

For Petropoulos, who has spent decades shedding light on Nazi looted art, the action by Argentine police should serve as an example to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Argentine police are the first since World War Two to employ criminal statutes to arrest possessors of Nazi looted art and to use the criminal proceedings against possessors to ensure the return of the artwork,\u201d he told The Post, referring to recent legal cases <\/a>in the US in which museums have been sued for the return of Nazi looted works hanging in their galleries.<\/p>\n

In other cases involving Schiele works, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seized eleven from US museums in 2023. Nobody was arrested or criminally prosecuted in that case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis case reminds us that private individuals in possession of Nazi stolen art also have an obligation to restitute,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A real estate listing in Argentina shook the art world last month when it revealed a painting hanging…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2841,648,1032,1033,171,66816,1069,118511,67,132,68,44110,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-217001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-nazis","14":"tag-painting","15":"tag-stolen-art","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-vincent-van-gogh","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115183170564367656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}