Dirk Bus (5 December 1907 - 10 June 1978 in The Hague) was a Dutch sculptor.

Bus was educated in sculpture at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. He was a student of Bon Ingen-Housz and Jan Bronner. He then taught sculpture at the Art Academy and the Hague Academy. One of his most famous pupils was the sculptor Kees Verkade.

Dirk Bus

Bus was chairman of the Pulchri Studio for years and member of the Dutch Society of Sculptors in Amsterdam. He co-founded the artistic group Hague Verve with Theo Bitter. Many of his public works are found in The Hague, with some notable sculptures on Lijnbaan Bridge and around the old town hall. Bus' work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Dirk Bus

Gallery of sculptures in The Hague

References

Dutch male sculptors

1907 births

1978 deaths

Artists from The Hague

20th-century Dutch sculptors

Royal Academy of Art, The Hague alumni

20th-century Dutch male artists

Dirk Bus