Birthday calendar: Jip en Janneke met ballonnen, Fiep Westendorp

Never forget a birthday or any other memorable moment with our artistic birthday calendar. Each month features a different illustration. Hang the calendar easily on the wall with the handy hanging loop.
- 17 x 30 cm
- Wall model with hanging loop
- 12 pages each with its own month
- Each month has its own illustration
- 100 gsm woodfree, offwhite paper
- 162 grams

**ABOUT THE ARTIST, FIEP WESTENDORP:**

Sophia Maria (Fiep) Westendorp (Zaltbommel, December 17, 1916 Amsterdam, February 3, 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 Het Parool and books by, among others, Annie M.G. Schmidt, Mies Bouhuys, and Han G. Hoekstra. Additionally, she illustrated advertising campaigns and created murals. Her legacy is preserved in the 'Fiep Westendorp Foundation'.

From a young age, Westendorp wanted to become an illustrator. Therefore, after secondary school, she attended the Royal School of Art, Technology and Craft (KTA) in 's-Hertogenbosch and then the Academy in Rotterdam. In 1937, she received her first assignment: illustrating the VVV-guide of Zaltbommel. Westendorp discontinued her studies after the bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940, which destroyed the academy.

At the beginning of the war, Westendorp lived with Clara Eggink and J.C. Bloem and illustrated for the magazines Cinema and Theater and De Zakenwereld. From 1942, she lived with her parents in Zaltbommel, where she worked on forging identity cards and made situational drawings of the Waal riverbank for the Allies.

Through Adriaan Roland Holst and Simon Carmiggelt, after the Liberation, she ended up in Amsterdam at Vrij Nederland and Het Parool, for which she created weekly illustrations. In the journalist café Scheltema, Westendorp met Annie M.G. Schmidt in 1947. It was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. However, their legendary collaboration began only in 1952 with the adventures of Jip and Janneke on the children's page of Het Parool. From 1952 to 1957, the adventures of Jip and Janneke appeared weekly in this newspaper. When illustrating the stories, Westendorp chose the silhouette. Between 1976 and 1984, she redrew all the illustrations of Jip and Janneke. They remained silhouettes but became more compact in form and sharper in line.

Later, Westendorp illustrated among others Pluk van de Petteflet, Otje, and Floddertje. She also illustrated the book Rijmpjes en versjes uit de nieuwe doos by Han G. Hoekstra and made advertising drawings for, among others, KLM.

For Mies Bouhuys, from 1957 to 1968, she made the illustrations of the cats Pim and Pom, the successors of Jip and Janneke on the children's page of Het Parool. While archiving Westendorp's drawings, these illustrations were found in plastic bags in a bathroom cupboard. The more than a thousand illustrations of Pim and Pom form the basis for the animation series The Adventures of Pim & Pom. The series won the 2010 Cinekid Award for the best children's program.