Set fridge magnets: Jip en Janneke, Fiep Westendorp

Museum art on your fridge with this set of 9 mini magnets. Each fridge magnet features a unique design. Fun as decoration and strong enough to hold a drawing or note. Also perfect as a gift!

- Box dimensions: 7 x 9.4 cm
- Contents: six magnets of 2 x 2 cm and two magnets of 4.5 x 2 cm,
- 3 mm thick
- Glossy
- Printed full color on one side
- Back side 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 the 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 maintained by the 'Fiep Westendorp Foundation'.

From a young age, Westendorp wanted to become an illustrator. Therefore, after secondary school, she attended the Royal School for Art, Technique and Craft (KTA) in 's-Hertogenbosch and subsequently the Academy in Rotterdam. In 1937 she received her first assignment: illustrating the Zaltbommel VVV guide. Westendorp halted her studies after the Rotterdam bombardment in May 1940, when the academy was destroyed.

At the beginning of the war, Westendorp lived in the home 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 falsifying identity cards and created situational drawings of the Waal riverbank for the Allies.

Through Adriaan Roland Holst and Simon Carmiggelt, she came to Amsterdam after the Liberation, working for Vrij Nederland and Het Parool, for which she created weekly illustrations. In the journalists' café Scheltema, Westendorp met Annie M.G. Schmidt in 1947. It was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Their legendary collaboration 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. When illustrating the stories, Westendorp chose silhouettes. Between 1976 and 1984, she redrew all illustrations of Jip and Janneke. They remained silhouettes but became more compact in shape and cleaner in line.

Later, Westendorp illustrated 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, among others, for 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. During archiving of Westendorp's drawings, these illustrations were found in plastic bags in a bathroom cabinet. The more than a thousand illustrations of Pim and Pom form the basis for the animated series The Adventures of Pim & Pom. The series won the 2010 Cinekid Award for best children's program.