Daughter of former Nazi official and her husband to be questioned after raid on home failed to find masterpiece
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.
