"A federal court in Argentina has ordered house arrest for the daughter of a former Nazi official and her husband after a raid failed to locate a painting stolen from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam. Authorities raided a home in the coastal city of Mar del Plata last week after a Dutch newspaper identified a painting seen in a real estate photo as an Italian masterpiece registered on a database of lost wartime art. They failed, however, to locate the piece."
"The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by the Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, who died in 1743, had been missing for 80 years, before it was identified in the listing for a home believed to be owned by Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of the late former Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien. Patricia Kadgien and her husband were ordered to remain under house arrest for 72 hours starting Monday"
Argentine authorities conducted raids after a Dutch newspaper identified a painting in a real estate photo as a lost wartime Italian masterpiece. The portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Giuseppe Ghislandi had been missing for 80 years and was listed in a database of art stolen by Nazis from Amsterdam dealer Jacques Goudstikker. Investigators linked the listing to a home believed owned by Patricia Kadgien, daughter of former Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien. Patricia Kadgien and her husband were placed under 72-hour house arrest and face questioning for obstructing the investigation and potential concealment of theft in the context of genocide. Additional raids recovered two other 19th-century paintings.
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