Andreas Schotel

During the First World War he was stationed in North Brabant near the border of Belgium occupied by Germany.

[1] As with Derkzen van Angeren, their attention was focused on ports, industry and simplified landscapes.

The cottage was placed close to the foreman's home of the Orange Association of Order, which the Rovertsche Heide had mined.

Saucer was a Communist and thus an odd man out, but contact with the local population showed mutual respect.

Esbeek already knew a number of immigrants, such as Protestant farmers who were attracted by the mining companies because of their knowledge of modern farming methods.

Lauwers, headmaster of Esbeek and writer of Langs de Hilverboorden, for which he produced ten etchings.

He developed the mari, a tool that removed the ink from the etching plate but left it intact in the slots.

In May 2009 the Andreas Schotel Museum was opened in Esbeek in the Schuttershof, an institution where the artist also regularly visited.

Since the purchase of the Rovertsche Heide by the Brabant Landscape Foundation, it has been relocated 200 meters and it may have a cultural purpose.