{"id":577986,"date":"2026-05-11T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577986\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:56:08","slug":"portrait-looted-by-nazis-found-in-home-of-dutch-ss-leaders-descendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577986\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait looted by Nazis found in home of Dutch SS leader&#8217;s descendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brand told the BBC the discovery was &#8220;stunning&#8221;, describing it as &#8220;the most bizarre case of my entire career&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have recovered Nazi-looted art from World War Two before, including pieces in the Louvre, the Dutch Royal Collection, and numerous museums,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But discovering a painting from the famous Goudstikker collection, in the possession of the heirs of a notorious and famous Dutch Waffen-SS general, truly tops everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;For decades, the family, who of course bear no personal guilt for Seyffardt&#8217;s own crimes, had the opportunity to do the right thing and return this painting. They chose not to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This discovery draws parallels to a previous case where an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq68dze2l71o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Italian master painting stolen from the Goudstikker collection by the Nazis appeared on the website of an estate agent selling a house in Argentina.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A photo showed the portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi hanging above a sofa inside a property near Buenos Aires, once owned by a senior Nazi official who moved to South America after the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The discovery led to a police raid on the property, but the painting had seemingly been taken down and moved by the time authorities arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brand told the BBC the discovery was &#8220;stunning&#8221;, describing it as &#8220;the most bizarre case of my entire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-577986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}