{"id":3389,"date":"2025-09-05T08:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/3389\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:47:15","slug":"argentina-officials-recover-missing-painting-stolen-by-nazis-and-seen-in-real-estate-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/3389\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina officials recover missing painting stolen by Nazis and seen in real estate photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lucila Sigal and Juan Carlos Bustamante, Reuters<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4K1LQ8W_Stolen_painting_JPG\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was featured on a database of works of art stolen by the Nazis and has been missing for 80 years.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was featured on a database of works of art stolen by the Nazis and has been missing for 80 years.<br \/>\nPhoto:\n<\/p>\n<p>Argentina officials have said on Wednesday (local time) they had recovered a painting stolen decades ago by the Nazis following days of international intrigue and raids to track down the portrait after it was spotted in a real estate photo.<\/p>\n<p>An official for the local prosecutor&#8217;s office in the coastal city of Mar del Plata said Argentina&#8217;s federal prosecutor would soon reveal more details about the painting&#8217;s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, is featured on a database of works of art stolen by the Nazis and has been missing for 80 years.<\/p>\n<p>Argentine authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/571857\/argentina-court-orders-house-arrest-for-daughter-of-nazi-official-in-search-for-missing-painting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raided a house<\/a> in Mar del Plata last week after the painting was shown hanging on a wall in a photo on a real estate listing, but were not able to immediately locate it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4K1LQA1_Stolen_painting_table_JPG\" width=\"1050\" height=\"672\" alt=\"The painting, 'Portrait of a Lady,' by the Italian Baroque painter Giuseppe Ghislandi, was handed over to officials in Argentina.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe painting, &#8216;Portrait of a Lady,&#8217; by the Italian Baroque painter Giuseppe Ghislandi, was handed over to officials in Argentina.<br \/>\nPhoto: Mara Sosti \/ La Nacion\n<\/p>\n<p>Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad first reported that the home in the real estate listing belonged to Patricia Kadgien, daughter of Friedrich Kadgien, a senior official in Adolf Hitler&#8217;s government who moved to Argentina from Germany after World War Two. He died in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>A federal court ordered house arrest for Patricia Kadgien and her husband for 72 hours starting Monday. A judicial official told Reuters they would be questioned on accusations they had obstructed the investigation to locate the painting.<\/p>\n<p>The portrait of Contessa Colleoni was among more than 1000 works of art stolen by the Nazis from Amsterdam-based art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who died in 1940.<\/p>\n<p>-Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Lucila Sigal and Juan Carlos Bustamante, Reuters The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,48,47,501,156,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}