Search for the art of Nazi action leads to arrest warrants in Argentina
A court in Argentina has been arrested as police continue to search for a Nazi painting that appears on the property listing in Mar del Plata’s house.
The work, painted by Giuseppe Ghislandi, appears in a lost art database that once belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish dealer in Amsterdam before the rise of the Nazis. Goudstikker sells some old masterpieces in his stake. Some of the paintings were since then sent back to his heirs.
Dutch newspapers discovered Ghislandi’s painting last week Algemeen Dagbladwhich reported that the work can be seen in the property listings of homes in the coastal town of Mar del Plata. The list has since been deleted and police have begun investigating the whereabouts of the painting.
according to Associated PressAccording to the Associated Press, the house belongs to Patricia Kadgien and her husband Juan Carlos Cortegoso. Kadgien was the daughter of Nazi officials who fled Germany and spent their last years in Argentina.
During the raid, police failed to find the artwork. But as the search continued, Kadgien and Cortegoso had been arrested by the Federal Court of Argentina.
Kadgien and her husband tell Argentina publications LaNación They inherited Ghislandi paintings.
Meanwhile, Argentine prosecutors also stared at two other works by another Kadgien daughter. The prosecutor told LaNaciónso that they can be “analyzed to determine whether they are related to the stolen paintings during World War II.”
