Dirk Hubers (Amersfoort, 24 September 1913 – Guanajuato, 1 November 2003) was a Dutch ceramist, who lived and worked in

Bergen, North Holland Bergen () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Its North Sea beaches and forests make it a popular destination for tourists. In 2001, the municipality was formed from a merger of the former municipaliti ...

and starting in 1958 in the United States. Hubers is notated for being "one of the first to apply abstract graphic designs on his objects."

Life and work

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 Harm Henrick Kamerlingh Onnes (; 15 February 1893, Zoeterwoude20 May 1985, Leiden) was a Dutch portrait painter and ceramist, Mienke Simon Thomas (2008). Goed in vorm: honderd jaar ontwerpen in Nederland'' p. 188 who also produced designs for sta ...

, Piet Wiegman and Frans Wildenhain he took part in the exhibition "five contemporary potters" in

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. The museum is located a ...

, which was one of the first museum presentations of modern artisan ceramics in the Netherlands. Mienke Simon Thomas (2008).
Goed in vorm: honderd jaar ontwerpen in Nederland
'' p. 188 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 The Princessehof Ceramics Museum (in Dutch: Keramiekmuseum Princessehof) is a museum of ceramics in the city of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The museum's name comes from one of two buildings in which it is housed: a small palace ( means ‘roya ...

in Groningen and the

Centraal Museum The Centraal Museum is the main museum in Utrecht (city), Utrecht, Netherlands, founded in 1838. The museum has a wide-ranging collection, mainly of works produced locally. The collection of the paintings by the Northern Mannerist Joachim Wte ...

Platte schaal, hoge voet (1953); Dirk Hubers. Keramiek, geglazuurd. Schenking 1953
at centraalmuseum.nl.

Gallery

;Ceramic works File:Schaal met licht concave bodem en bol spreidende wand met intern een wit en extern een blauw glazuur, 1940.jpg, Plate white inside and blue glaze outside, 1940 File:Bord met ingekrast decor van gezicht en profil. 1933-79.jpg, Plate with face in profile, 1933–79 File:Schaal met abstract decor en cirkels van Dirk Hubers.jpg, Plate with abstract decoration and circles ;Ceramic clock in N.S. Station, Arnhem File:HUA-150112-Gezicht op het N.S.-station Arnhem te Arnhem.jpg File:HUA-152395-Interieur van het N.S.-station Arnhem te Arnhem- hal.jpg File:HUA-153961-Afbeelding van de door Dirk Hubers in keramiek uitgevoerde klok in de stationshal van het N.S.-station Arnhem.jpg ;Ceramic sculptures in Adventkerk, Loosduinen File:Aanzicht vanuit het zuidwesten - 's-Gravenhage - 20419357 - RCE.jpg, Adventkerk, Loosduinen File:Interieur avondmaalsruimte, detail tegeltableau - Loosduinen - 20357885 - RCE.jpg, Tile tableau inside File:Interieur avondmaalsruimte, detail tegeltableau - Loosduinen - 20357884 - RCE.jpg, Tile tableau inside

References

External links

Dirk Hubers
at capriolus.nl {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubers, Dirk 1913 births 2003 deaths Dutch emigrants to the United States People from Amersfoort 20th-century Dutch ceramists