The daughter of a former Nazi official and her husband have been placed under house arrest in Argentina.
As fate would have it, their home in Mar del Plata, published on a real estate website, showed a valuable work of art in pictures of the house for sale, a work apparently lost and taken from a Jewish art dealer, Jacques Goudstikker, in Amsterdam during WWII.
The painting disappeared from the house in question by the time a raid took place, and the couple was placed under federal house arrest.
The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by the Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was not located within the house.
Two firearms as well as some engravings and prints were seized.
Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of senior Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien, and her husband, will be questioned this week about the Giuseppe Ghislandi painting.
The couple will be summoned for a hearing immediately.
They are expected to respond to the grave accusation of concealing criminal property.
In the homes of relatives, investigators found two other paintings that appeared to date back to the 1800s.
“Portrait of a Lady” is over of over 1,000 works of art seized by the Nazis from Jacques Goudstikker, who died in 1940, when Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring bought them for a minuscule price.
