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\n\tA painting stolen by the Nazis from the Goudstikker collection has surfaced in the home of descendants of a Dutch SS collaborator, according to an art detective.<\/p>\n
Portrait of a Young Girl<\/em>, by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, was allegedly displayed for decades by the family of Hendrik Seyffardt, a general who aided the Nazis during their occupation of the Netherlands before being killed by the Dutch resistance. As previously reported, a man claiming to be a descendant of Seyffardt contacted the detective Arthur Brand after discovering the painting in his family\u2019s possession. The source, who requested anonymity, told Brand he\u2019d only recently learned of his familial relation to Seyffardt, and later saw the work hanging in the hallway of Seyffardt\u2019s granddaughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe man\u2019s grandmother reportedly told him that it had been purchased during World War II, and that it was \u201cJewish looted art, stolen from Goudstikker. It is unsellable. Don\u2019t tell anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe family member told the Dutch newspaper<\/em>De Telegraaf<\/em> that the admission left him \u201cstunned speechless.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt is true that I discovered my family possesses the looted painting and does not want to return it,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThat is why I am now bringing it into the public eye. I feel deep shame about the family past and am furious about the years of silence. The painting must return to the Jewish rightful heirs.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBrand reportedly traced the painting to a 1940 auction of Nazi-looted artworks, adding that attorneys for the Goudstikker heirs have initiated restitution proceedings. <\/p>\n \n\tJacques Goudstikker owned more than 1,200 artworks, specializing in Old Masters, all of which were stolen\u2014making it one of the largest collections of Nazi-looted art still awaiting reunification with its rightful owners. Portrait of a Young Girl<\/em> was likely inherited by Hendrik Seyffardt\u2019s son, himself a known Nazi sympathizer, after his father\u2019s assassination by the Hague resistance in 1943.<\/p>\n \n\tHendrik Seyffardt\u2019s heirs\u2014who have since dropped the notorious surname\u2014admitted in a statement to Dutch media that they are in possession of the painting, but denied knowing that it was looted art.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe case recalls another in Argentina last year, when an 18th-century painting by Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi was discovered in a photograph hanging in the living room of a property outside Buenos Aires. Investigators found the portrait listed in a database of lost art as stolen from the Goudstikker collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/nazi-looted-portrait-home-ss-leader-1234785000\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/kelder-looted-painting.jpeg?w=1024″] A painting stolen by the Nazis from the Goudstikker collection has surfaced in the home of descendants of a Dutch SS collaborator, according to an art detective. Portrait of a Young Girl, by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, was allegedly displayed for decades by the family of Hendrik Seyffardt, a general who aided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1930137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}