Toon Kelder Painting from Goudstikker Collection Found in Dutch Private Home

An artwork looted by the Nazis from the Goudstikker collection has been located in the home of descendants of Hendrik Seyffardt, a senior Dutch collaborator with the Nazis, according to art detective Arthur Brand. The painting, titled Portrait of a Young Girl and created by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, is believed to have hung for decades in the hallway of Hendrik Seyffardt’s granddaughter’s home.

Brand described the case as “the most bizarre case of my entire career”.

An anonymous man who recently learned he was descended from Seyffardt approached Brand after seeing the painting. The man told Brand he had seen the painting hanging in the hallway of Hendrik Seyffardt’s granddaughter’s home. Hendrik Seyffardt commanded a Waffen-SS unit of volunteers on the eastern front.

He was assassinated by resistance fighters in 1943. A Nazi state funeral was held for him in The Hague, and Adolf Hitler sent a wreath. According to Brand, Seyffardt’s granddaughter told the family member that the painting was “Jewish looted art, stolen from Goudstikker.

It is unsellable. ” The family had not known the painting was looted prior to the confrontation. The anonymous family member told De Telegraaf: “I feel ashamed. ” A relative was quoted as saying: “I received it from my mother.

Now that you confront me like this, I understand that Goudstikker’s heirs want the painting back. ” The painting originates from the Goudstikker collection of the late Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker. It has a Goudstikker label on the back and the number 92 is carved into the frame.