Mystery as looted painting disappears from Nazi descendant’s home before police raid | World | News
During the World War II, the police hoped to save an Italian artwork looted, and was left empty after raiding the house of a high -ranking Nazi fugitive daughter.
Giuseppe Ghislandi’s ‘Portrait of a Woman’ was stolen from a Dutch Jewish art seller in 1940, and for years when it was detected in a property list in the Argentine Parque Luro province near Buenos Aires. The villa was once released by Patricia Kadgein, the daughter of the senior Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien, the senior Nazi official, who was once described as a “the lowest snake” by the US intelligence.
Police raided the property in the hope of recovering the portrait in the picture hanging on a living room wall on a sofa on the list. However, when they arrived, his works of art had disappeared, the authorities accepted “a change in the decor of the house”.
“Neither the woman nor the partner has made any explanation about the official delivery of official or giving any indicator of its position,” Le Capital said in the Le Capital newspaper. “
The reports from the Dutch Algemeen Dagblad newspaper claimed that the work of art was abolished “shortly after or after reports on media reports”.
“There is a large carpet with horses and some natural scenes hanging there,” journalist Peter Schouten said.
‘Portrait of a Woman’ was thought to be among more than 1,100 works from the art seller Jacques Goudstikker collection, who was forced on sale after his death by the Nazis – many of them went to the president of Reichstag Hermann Göring for a small part of his real values.
Some works recovered in Germany after the war, and in 2006, Goudstikker’s father -in -law was exhibited in Rijksmuseum before returning to Marei von Sazer.
Friedrich Kadgien, who was a SS officer and senior financial assistance to Göring, won fame as a successful businessman before he fled to Brazil in 1979 after he fled to Switzerland in 1945.
An investigation by the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad said Kadgien was a person who seems to have important assets. [and] It may still be valuable by US officials before his death.
Art historians said that the painting seen in the property list is the same as the original ‘portrait of a woman’ of Ghislandi, which is considered as one of the leading portraits of Italy’s Late Baroque period.
