Authorities in Argentina have reportedly placed the daughter of a former Nazi official and her spouse under house arrest after a painting seized by the Nazis during World War II inexplicably disappeared from their living room wall.
Police raided the couple’s home in the coastal city of Mar del Plata last week after the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad spotted the missing 18th-century artwork “Portrait of a Lady” by Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi hanging above their sofa in an online real estate listing that has since been removed. The painting previously belonged to the Dutch-Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, whose collection of more than 1,100 artworks was looted by the Nazis shortly after his death while fleeing the Netherlands in 1940.
During their search, authorities failed to locate the looted canvas, instead finding a tapestry hanging in its place. Now, a federal court has ordered Patricia Kadgien, daughter of the Nazi aide Friedrich Kadgien, and her spouse to be placed under ...
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