Dirk Hubers

The field of work recorded is ceramic art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bergen and United States. Work by Dirk Hubers is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Kunstcollectie Provincie Gelderland, Stichting Kunst in de Publieke Ruimte in Arnhem, Design Museum Den Bosch and Centraal Museum.

After secondary school Hubert first worked as a clerk, ordinary seaman and farmhand. At a stay in Denmark in 1936 he came in contact with pottery, and learned the fundamentals of the profession. Back in the Netherlands in 1938 he became apprentice at a pottery in Putten. During the war he worked at a pottery in Voorschoten. After the war settles in Bergen where he started his own studio. Huberts came into prominence in 1953, when with Bert Nienhuis, Harm Kamerlingh Onnes, Piet Wiegman and Frans Wildenhain he took part in the exhibition "five contemporary potters" in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which was one of the first museum presentations of modern artisan ceramics in the Netherlands. Donhauser (1978) recalled, that "Dirk Hubers and Nicolas Vergette are two examples of potters who, through their distinctive form language, added to the diversity of style and attitudes which comprised the American studio-pottery scene during the 1950s." Hubert's work is in collections of the Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Groningen and the Centraal Museum

• Ceramic works • Illustration — Plate white inside and blue glaze outside, 1940 • Illustration — Plate with face in profile, 1933–79 • Illustration — Plate with abstract decoration and circles • Ceramic clock in N.S. Station, Arnhem • Ceramic sculptures in Adventkerk, Loosduinen • Illustration — Adventkerk, Loosduinen • Illustration — Tile tableau inside • Illustration — Tile tableau inside