A Dutch newspaper said this week it found Baroque-era Nazi records in a house in Argentina. Soon after, the painting disappeared, triggering a police investigation.
Algemeen Dagblad The painting is reportedly a portrait of a woman, an artist of Giuseppe Ghislandi, who is also named after Fra Galgario, and is known today for his contribution to the late Italian Baroque period. Ghsilandi’s work is included in the lost art database and is currently classified as “no credit” by the Dutch government.
According to the database, the work once belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish man who was in Amsterdam before the rise of the Nazis. Amid the threat of persecution, Goudstikker fled the Netherlands, despite his eventual death in an accident on board the ship in 1940. His family later took root in the United States.
Goudstikker accumulated a large number of old master paintings and sold them under coercion. Some even returned to his family. For example, in 2023, after a collector provided the work to Rolin Musee Rolin of Autun, France, it was attributed to the 16th-century paintings by Dutch artist Cornelis Van Haarlem.
In 2009, the Jewish Museum in New York held a performance of a work formerly owned by Goudstikker, and the description of the show noted that his family had successfully restored 200 works. Works on the show include paintings by Salomon van Ruysdael, Jacob van Ruisdael and Jan van der Heyde.
His property reportedly included the portrait of Ghislandi, which was eventually owned by Friedrich Kadgien, an SS officer who lived in Switzerland from 1945 to 1945. He then went to Brazil and then to Argentina, where he died in 1978.
Cyril Rosman advertise The reporter said he had tried to talk to Cardjean’s descendants, but he was unsuccessful. There is another advertise The reporter said he visited the house in Mar del Plata, which appeared to contain Ghislandi’s paintings. “Of course there was someone at home, we saw a shadow moving in the corridor, but no one opened it,” Shorten wrote.
Finally, the document contacted Kadgien’s family, who reportedly lives in Buenos Aires. The daughter said, “I don’t know what information you want, I don’t know what painting you are talking about.”
Robles Casas & Campas are marketing Mar del Plata Home after that, after which the list has been removed, Kadgien’s daughter has changed its name on Instagram advertise Report.
Then, after advertise The report has been published, LaNación The report said the painting had been taken out of the living room. What the paper hangs in its position is a “giant tapestry of landscape and horses”.
“This painting is not in the house…but we will continue to look for it,” a federal prosecutor told Argentine media. According to the Jewish Telegraph Agency, Interpol was also involved in the case.
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