11/12/2025
For years, investigative reporters had been trying to track down looted artwork held by senior N**i official Friedrich Kadgien, who fled to Argentina after World War II. When journalist Peter Schouten went to the home of one of Kadgien's daughters in Mar del Plata, she refused to answer — but then he noticed a "for sale" sign in the garden. And when Schouten found the house listing online, a photo of the living room clearly showed one of the looted pieces he'd been looking for.
"Portrait of a Lady" was painted by the Italian Old Master Giuseppe Ghislandi, also known as Fra' Galgario, in the early 1700s. It was in the possession of a Jewish art dealer living in the Netherlands named Jacques Goudstikker in 1940, when he died trying to flee the N**is. Some of his collection of more than 1,100 pieces was then taken by Hermann Göring, the Air Force commander and Reichstag president who was, by most accounts, the second most powerful man in N**i Germany after Adolf Hi**er. Göring then gave "Portrait of a Lady" to Kadgien, who took it with him to South America after the war.
Now, Goudstikker's sole remaining heir is taking steps to get her father's painting back, more than 80 years after it was taken....
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