STATUE OF DUTCH HERO JAN VAN SCHAFFELAAR, 2004

PRESENTED BY MUSEUM NAIRAC IN BARNEVELD (HOLLAND)

"As a model for the armour a beautiful painting by Friedrich Herlin, c. 1460, was chosen depicting St. George and the dragon. Gotscha worked for nearly 2000 hours to hammer and burnish the steel plates into the required form. He had to transform a two-dimensial picture into a three-dimensional object and it took al his long experience as a master- armourer and and artist to do this. The resulting armour is splendid and gives a completely accurate impression of how Jan van Schaffelaar would have looked at the time. It now forms one of the showpieces of the museum exhibition."  

Drs. Priscilla van Leeuwen, Chef Curator of the Museum Nairac in Barneveld