Argentina court orders house arrest for daughter of Nazi official in search for missing painting

By Lucila Sigal

Buenos Aires (Reuters) -A Federal Court in Arjantina could not find an iconic picture stolen by the Nazis decades for a former Nazi official and his husband’s daughter after a raid.

In an incident that fascinated Argentina last week, the authorities raided a house on the coastal city Mar de Plata after identifying a table that was seen as an Italian masterpiece registered in a real estate photograph of a Dutch newspaper.

However, they could not find the piece.

The painting, a portrait of Contesa Colleoni by the Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, who died in 1743, was missing for 80 years before being identified on the list of a house owned by Patricia Kadgien, daughter of Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien.

Patricia Kadgien and her husband were ordered to stay under house arrest for 72 hours, starting on Monday, starting on Monday and prevented the investigation.

The authority said the couple would be called for a hearing before Thursday.

The Argentine officials said that he had raided four new raids on Monday to find the picture, and the authorities said that the inspectors found two more paintings dating back to the 1800s in the houses connected with Kadgien and the couple’s relatives.

Reuters did not immediately contact Patricia Kadgien.

At the end of the Second World War, a number of senior Nazi officials fled to South America after the Third Reich fell.

The portrait of Contessa Colleoni was among the Nazis, the Amsterdam -based art vendor Jacques Goudstikker, who died in 1940. Kadgien died in 1979.

(Reporting by Lucila Sigal, Cassandra Garrison and Alistair Bell.)