"Nearly 80 years after its disappearance, a chance event led to the location of a painting stolen by the Nazis in Amsterdam. The trace of Portrait of a Lady, by the Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi (1655-1743), had been lost around 1946, after the Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, its owner, was forced by Adolf Hitler's regime to part with the works he had stored in his gallery; more than 1,100 pieces of art."
"But when the local court raided the property on Tuesday, the work was no longer there. The house belongs to one of the daughters of Friedrich Kadgien, a high-ranking Nazi official. The woman intended to sell the house and published photos of its interior: there, dominating the living room, suspended between two lamps behind an armchair, was the painting."
"It was very surreal, we didn't expect it, says Peter Schouten, the journalist who led the investigation. A correspondent in Buenos Aires, Schouten worked with his colleagues in the Netherlands, Cyril Rosman and John van den Oetelaar. My colleagues have been investigating the Kadgien family for 10 years. As we are now commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, they asked me to try to contact Kadgien's daughters, he says."
Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi, looted from Jewish dealer Jacques Goudstikker around 1946, resurfaced nearly 80 years later in a house in Mar del Plata, Argentina. The house is owned by a daughter of Friedrich Kadgien, a high-ranking Nazi official who served as a financial expert for National Socialism and worked with Hermann Goring. The painting appeared in real estate photographs advertising the home. Dutch journalists located the image, prompting a local court raid, but the artwork was missing when authorities entered the property.
Read at english.elpais.com
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