Fridge magnet: Jip en Janneke op een fiets, Fiep Westendorp

Museum art on your fridge, magnet board, and wall brightens things up. The sturdy fridge magnets from Bekking & Blitz are unbendable. Use the fridge magnet as decoration and for hanging drawings and notes.

- 5.5 x 7.8 cm
- Glossy
- Printed in full color on one side
- Back equipped with a strong magnet

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 the books of among others Annie M.G. Schmidt, Mies Bouhuys, and Han G. Hoekstra. Additionally, she illustrated advertising campaigns and created murals. Her legacy is housed in the foundation 'Fiep Westendorp Foundation'.

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

At the start of the war, Westendorp lived in the house of 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 she ended up in Amsterdam after the Liberation, working for Vrij Nederland and Het Parool, for which she made weekly illustrations. In the journalist café Scheltema, Westendorp met Annie M.G. Schmidt in 1947. It was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Their legendary collaboration, however, only started 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. Westendorp chose the silhouette style to illustrate the stories. Between 1976 and 1984 she redrew all the illustrations of Jip and Janneke. They remained silhouettes but became more compact in form and more precise 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, successors to Jip and Janneke on the children's page of Het Parool. While archiving Westendorp's drawings, these illustrations were found back in plastic bags in a bathroom cabinet. 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.