(4 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mar del Plata, Argentina – 4 September 2025
1. Patricia Kadgien, daughter of Friedrich Kadgien
2. Juan Carlos Cortegoso
3. Accused couple together with defense attorney Carlos Murias
4. Cortegoso and Murias
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Santiago Inchausti, judge:
“The obstruction was the concealment of the artwork for several days. Regardless of the motives, the fact remains that several raids were necessary to locate the artwork, which did not appear until it was delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office, a few days ago. That is clearly established in Article 222, subsection A, as concealment.”
6. Screen used in the hearing showing images of the photo taken in the living room of the descendants of Nazi Friedrich Kadgien, in which the stolen painting was displayed.
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Martínez, Mar del Plata federal prosecutor:
“As I said at the beginning, it is about having had in their possession and having concealed — without being able to specify the exact date but approximately since 1979 and certainly until September 3, 2025 — the artwork ‘Portrait of a Lady’ by artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, an oil on canvas dated around the year 1700, which was stolen from its owner after July 1940 in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation, in a context of genocide and a systematic plan to appropriate cultural property and works of art, when its owner had to flee while being persecuted by the Nazi regime precisely for practicing the Jewish religion.”
8. Federal Court of Mar del Plata ++ MUTE ++
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Martínez, Mar del Plata federal prosecutor:
“Not directly with them (Jacques Goudstikker’s relatives) yet, but the FBI informed us they filed a complaint there (NY), and they will get in touch with the Argentine Prosecutor’s Office. They intend to provide documentation related to the case and to artworks that belonged to her father.”
10. Pan of the Federal Court of Mar del Plata ++ MUTE ++
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Martínez, Mar del Plata federal prosecutor:
“It all depends on the court’s decision. What the magistrate said at this moment is that he would place the artwork in custody of the Supreme Court, which which will ultimately determine where it should be kept.”
12. Sign of the Federal Court of Mar del Plata ++ MUTE ++
STORYLINE:
Prosecutors in Argentina on Thursday charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official with trying to hide an 18th-century painting from authorities following revelations that it had been stolen from a Jewish art dealer during World War II.
The federal prosecutor in charge of the case announced the cover-up charge a day after Patricia Kadgien, one of the daughters of high-level Nazi officer Friedrich Kadgien, handed “Portrait of a Lady” by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi to the Argentine judiciary eight decades after it was stolen.
The fate of the work remains unclear, pending a decision in the case. The heir of Jacques Goudstikker — the Dutch-Jewish art collector who owned the painting before the Nazis confiscated his world-famous inventory — has made a legal claim to get the painting back, her lawyers have said.
Goudstikker died in a shipwreck in 1940 while fleeing the Netherlands as German troops advanced. He sold his collection, which included Rembrandts and Vermeers, under duress and far below market price. At least 1,100 stolen works from his gallery remain missing.
After the hearing the couple was released from house arrest but barred from traveling abroad and required to notify the court whenever they leave their registered address.
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