Argentine authorities believe they may have reclaimed a Nazi painting that appeared on a list of real estate in the coastal town of Mar del Plata.
El Díadel Mar del Plata Police conducted several raids near the house, which became the subject of a widespread conspiracy after the Dutch exports Algemeen Dagblad The list was investigated last week. The report shows that the house belongs to Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of Nazi officials.
Reports were made in the English press on Tuesday that Cardjean and her husband were arrested by Argentina authorities and were charged with obstruction of investigation.
but ElDíaThe report said Cardjean had actually flipped a painting, which was thought to have been painted by Giuseppe Ghislandi, an artist associated with the Italian Baroque movement. ElDía She reportedly “decided to provide the painting to the civil court.”
The painting appears in the Lost Art Register and is listed as “missed”. It once belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish dealer who fled Amsterdam during the rise of the Nazis and died shortly thereafter in an accident. Many of his collections are many of the works of the old painters, some of which have been returned to his heirs by the International Museum over the past few decades.
LaNaciónThe Argentina record paper reports that Kadgien asserted that she was the legal owner of the work, and she said she inherited the work.
