Buenos Aires, Argentina -Argentina Police on Tuesday raided a villa at a calm seas coastal resort as part of a hunting for the 17th century Italian portrait, it was believed that 80 years ago, a Jewish collector was robbed by a fugitive Nazi officer from a Jewish Collector, who settled in Argentina after World War II.
The investigation re -opens a shady chapter in the history of this South American nation, which sheltered the score of Nazis to avoid prosecution for war crimes after World War II, including high ranked party members and notorious architects of Holocosts such as Adolf Ichman.
Under the Government of Argentina General Juan Peron, the first term of which went on to overthrow in 1946 to 1955, Fugitive German fascists looted Jewish property with them From the other side of the world, including gold, bank deposits, paintings, sculptures and equipment.
The fate of those objects continues the news after decades because the painful process of reinstatement with Argentina and beyond.
In this case, the painting lost after Argentina officials is a “picture of a woman”, by the Italian baroque artist Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi.
Lost Art Database, German Art Foundation
Reports of the Dutch newspaper Algemin Dublad first saw that a real estate advertisement for a house appeared on Monday, which was considered under the ownership of descendants of Nazi Fusitive Frederick Kadzian, while searching for the artwork of theft from Netherlands.
Citing the Dutch art experts, the Rotterdam-based paper reported that the original “picture of a woman” appeared hanging on top of a green velvet couch in a rustic brick living room of a rustic brick chalet for sale in Mar Dal Plata, Argentina.
Real Estate Agency, Robbles Cassus & Campos, did not respond to the remarks request.
The house listing was still live on Tuesday night, but the image of the picture, which was first seen in the 3D tour of the interior of the house, appears to be removed.
The next day, Argentina officials raided the house.
Federal prosecutor Carlos Martinez told Associated Press that the painting was not found in the house, but authorities “other items that may be useful for investigation, such as weapons, some engraving, print and duration breeding.”
He said the investigators are investigating the possible allegations of hiding and smuggling.
The official Dutch database of the WWII art created by the Netherlands’ cultural heritage agency identifies the oil-on-canvas “picture of a woman”, which belongs to the Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacksist, who is related to Nazi as Nazi in May 1940 as Nazi as Nazi of Germany.
Through a lump sum looting or forced sale, agents acting on behalf of the Nazis worked with countless artifacts from private Dutch-Jewish dealers. Gaudstick’s inventory was illegally sold to Harman Going, known as Adolf Hitler’s right hand man.
The only living successor of Goudtikker, Marei Von Saher, has long been chased for his father -in -law’s theft work. In the 2006 case of a landmark, the Dutch government agreed to return the painting of 202 loot from the Goudastic collection, which is until Von Ser after a legal battle.
Von Ser did not immediately respond to a request for comment through his lawyers.
Clear movement of “picture of a woman”
The Dutch archives lists “a woman’s picture”, as passed from Berlin in the hands of a person named Kadzian.
A discovery of the German Federal Archives records the existence of only one Nazi party member with that surname: Frederick Gustav Kadzen, Membership Number 1,354,543, which is a financial ally as a financial ally, which is the sale of foreign currency, precious metals and seized property.
According to a disorganized report by the Central Intelligence Agency, after Germany’s defeat, Kadin Switzerland, then fled to Argentina. The Kadjian family and members of their commercial behavior in judicial and property registries of Argentina, starting in the 1950s, repeatedly show again and again.
Argentina was never accused of crimes related to Nazi regime during decades.
According to local media reports, he died in Buenos Aires in 1978.