Stolen Holocaust painting found in home advertisement

More than 80 years after being stolen from a Jewish collector during World War II, a painting by Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi was discovered in Argentina. The work, titled Portrait of a Lady, was displayed on the wall of a house listed for sale on the website of luxury real estate agency Robles Casas & Campos.

According to an investigation by the Dutch newspaper AD , the painting is one of several hundred that were stolen or bought under duress from the collection of Jacques Goudstikker, a successful Jewish art dealer from Amsterdam who helped other Jews fleeing the Nazi regime.

Experts analyzed the images shared on the home sales website and believe the painting matches the known dimensions and colors of the Italian painter's work.

Story of the Day: The painting Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi once belonged to Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker. It was seized by the Nazis and acquired by Friedrich Kadgien, a close associate of Göring and an SS member. Kadgien later fled to Argentina. Recently,… pic.twitter.com/n4bEH1HVWT

— Arthur Brand (art detective) (@brand_arthur) August 25, 2025

The collector who owned the artwork died in a shipwreck while fleeing to the United Kingdom on a cargo ship. The current owners of the painting are the descendants of Friedrich Kadgien, a financial advisor to Hermann Göring , one of the Nazi leaders, founder of the Gestapo, and one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates. Kadgien, like many other Nazis, fled to Argentina, where he died in 1979.

The Dutch newspaper's investigation began after one of the daughters of this former Nazi advisor put her house up for sale, with photographs of the interior showing the house's contents, including the famous painting, a portrait of Countess Colleoni, which is on the international list of lost art and the official Dutch list of works of art looted by the Nazis.

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