Willem Lenssinck, son of a Dutch father and a German mother, grew up in Harmelen in The Netherlands.

In the 1950s, the family moved to Utrecht, where Lenssinck later attended the Academy of Fine Arts (HKU).

In the year of his graduation, 1969, he was recommended by his teachers to Royal Delft and immediately hired as a designer for industrial ceramics.

Today Lenssinck focusses solely on free work; sculptures in bronze, German silver, stainless steel or aluminium as well as the design of furniture and lighting objects.

Since 2005 Lenssinck uses new 3D design processes to overcome technical limitations of traditional plaster models, such as enlargements or miniaturisation.