To-Do fridge magnet: Jip and Janneke with Takkie, Fiep Westendorp

To-do fridge magnet
50 sheets Format:
10 x 23.5 cm

ABOUT THE ARTIST, FIEP WESTENDORP:
Sophia Maria (Fiep) Westendorp (Zaltbommel, 17 December 1916 Amsterdam, 3 February 2004) was a Dutch illustrator, best known for the drawings of Jip and Janneke. Besides Jip and Janneke, Westendorp also illustrated the Women's page of the Parool newspaper and the books of Annie M.G. Schmidt, Mies Bouhuys and Han G. Hoekstra, among others. She also illustrated advertising campaigns and made murals. Her legacy is housed in the 'Fiep Westendorp Foundation'. Westendorp wanted to become an illustrator from an early age. So after hbs, she went to the Royal School for Art, Technology and Craft (KTA) in 's-Hertogenbosch and then to the Academy in Rotterdam. In 1937, she got her first assignment: illustrating the tourist guide of Zaltbommel. Westendorp broke off her studies after the bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940, which destroyed the academy. At the beginning of the war, Westendorp lived in the house of Clara Eggink and J.C. Bloem and illustrated for the magazines Cinema en Theater and De Zakenwereld.