Daughter of Nazi officer who stole ‘Portrait of a Lady’ and her husband charged with cover-up
Mar Del Plata, Argentina (AP)-Prosecutors in Argentina on Thursday accused a illegal Nazi official’s daughter of trying to hide a painting from the 18th century from the authorities. After the revelation that he was stolen II. From a Jewish art seller during World War II.
The Federal Prosecutor responsible for the case announced the accusation of covering up a day after Patricia Kadgien, one of the daughters of his senior Nazi officer Friedrich Kadgien. Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi by “Portrait of a Female” Twenty years after being stolen, the Argentine judgment.
The fate of the work remains uncertain and awaits a decision in the case. His lawyers made a legal claim to get back the picture, the heir of the Dutch-Yahudi art collector Jacques Goudstikker, who had a picture before seizing the world-famous inventory of the Nazis.
Goudstikker died in a shipwreck in 1940 and fled from the Netherlands as the German troops progressed. Rembrandts and Vermeers, including Vermeers, sold it under pressure and sold well below the market price. At least 1,100 stolen work is missing from the gallery.
The Argentine Court asked for exhibiting the picture at the Holocaost Museum in Buenos Aires before more transfer abroad. The museum did not respond immediately to the request for comments.
59 -year -old Patricia Kadgien and her husband Juan Carlos Cortegoso were under house arrest on suspicion of hiding officially. Since the police raided their homes on Monday The second time in a few weeks without finding a “Portrait of a Female”.
Kadgien, with scattered dirty blonde hair and sunglasses in his head, was worried and astonished while listening to prosecutor Carlos Martínez in a courtroom full of jam. Martínez, Kadgien and her husband’s sudden appearance on a real estate list following the sudden appearance of official hiding efforts to hide justice meant to prevent justice.
Cortegoso looked straight forward, crossed his arms and a hard expression on his face.
After the hearing, the couple were released from house arrest, but they were banned from traveling abroad and they had to report it to the court when they left their registered addresses.
The photographs of the painting hanging in Kadgien’s living room on Mar Del Plata appeared for the first time in an online real estate commercial for the first time last month.
Dutch journalists who investigated Kadgien’s past in Argentina – took refuge after the collapse of the Third Reich – during the 3D round for sale, he saw a “Portrait of a Lady Portrait on a green velvet sofa in the living room.
After recognizing it as the same portrait listed in the international archives of Nazi-Groomist art He released an Exposé on August 25 He took the headlines around the world.
The Argentine officials, who were warned by the International Police Agency Interpol, raided the Patricia Kadgien and his sister Alicia’s Assembly and other properties, a rifle of a rifle, a .32 -caliber pistol and several paintings.
However, the police could not find a “portrait of a lady”. They found traces of friction and a pastoral goblen on the living room wall of Patricia Kadgien, where the portrait was photographed.
The real estate advertisement, which was first published in February, was rapidly reduced. On Thursday, prosecutors, security images, the media review last week in the concentration of Kadgien’s front garden “for sale” sign showed that the sign.
While presenting the charges, Martínez told the court that the couple was “aware that the work of art was sought by the criminal justice system and international authorities, but still went to lengths to hide it.
“Only after a few police raids, they surrendered it,” he said.
The defendants Carlos Murias, who were under House on Monday, filed a petition with a civilian court on Mar Del Plata, and asked Kadgien to be allowed to auction.
The court rejected the request, arguing that the provenus of the picture did not have the jurisdiction.
Prosecutor Martínez told journalists on Thursday, by the Federal Investigation Office of his office, the heir of the art dealer Goudstikker’s heir to Marei von Sahar, the Bureau’s New York office said that he had a legal claim for a “portrait of a ladies”.
FBI avoided commenting.
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Debre reported from Argentina, Buenos Aires.
