Anna Sipkema

Sipkema studied at the Rijksnormaalschool voor Tekenonderwijzers in Amsterdam from 1894 to 1897, from the time she was seventeen until age twenty.

[2] She began teaching at the Dagtekenen Kunstambachtsschool voor Meisjes (Day Drawing and Craft School for Girls in Amsterdam) in 1904.

[2] While teaching, Sipkema found work in Amsterdam as a commercial artist, designing calendars, illustrations, bindings, and covers for books coming from publishers such as C.A.J.

[2] Sipkema turned away from the literary world and focused on weaving at the end of the decade, in her personal work as well as her teaching, and would continue with that path until her death in 1933.

[1][2] Sipkema is most widely remembered for her Art Nouveau flower-and-leaf calendars for the publishing house of C.A.J.