Argentine authorities recovered a 17th-century painting on Wednesday that was apparently stolen by the Nazis during World War II, the Mar del Plata Prosecutor’s Office reported in a statement.
The work, “Portrait of a Lady” by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was handed over to the Prosecutor’s Office by the lawyer representing two individuals investigated for the alleged theft and who’ve been detained since Monday, the Prosecutor’s Office mentioned.
On Tuesday, the Prosecutor’s Office reported in a separate statement that it carried out 4 raids at totally different places in Mar del Plata and positioned two individuals beneath home arrest in the case: a descendant of Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien and her companion.
Both people could have a proper listening to on prices this Thursday, the Prosecutor’s Office mentioned Wednesday.
NCS is looking for to contact their lawyer to be taught their pleas.
The painting was sought as a part of an investigation into an alleged theft dedicated during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Kadgien was a Nazi chief who went into hiding in Argentina after the struggle, like many others making an attempt to evade justice.
Archives in the Netherlands point out that the painting belonged to Jewish artwork seller Jacques Goudstikker, whose artwork gallery was robbed by the Nazis in May 1940. The archives additionally point out that the work later handed into the palms of Kadgien, who died in 1978 in Buenos Aires, in keeping with an AP report.
Goudstikker’s household is looking for to get better the works stolen from the seller greater than 80 years in the past.