Benno Premsela (Amsterdam, 4 May 1920 – Amsterdam, 27 March 1997) was a Dutch

designer A designer is a person who plans the form or structure of something before it is made, by preparing drawings or plans. In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or exper ...

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and art collector. As designer he was active as textile artist, industrial designer and interior designer.Benno Premsela;male / Dutch; industrial designer, textile artist, designer, interior decorator, window dresser, art collector, monumental artist
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Premsela was born and raised in Amsterdam. He was the son of Benedictus Premsela, general practitioner and sexologist, en Rosalie de Boers.E. Broeksma-van Capelle
Premsela, Benno (1920-1997)
, in ''Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland''. Last updated 12-11-2013. After his secondary education he attended the Nieuwe Kunstschool (New Art School) from 1937 to 1940. Premsela was Jewish and one of the only members of his family to survive

the Holocaust in the Netherlands The Holocaust saw the mass murder of Dutch Jews by Nazi Germany in German-occupied Netherlands, occupied Netherlands during the Second World War. The Nazi occupation in 1940 immediately began disrupting the norms of Dutch society, separating Dut ...

. From 1956 to 1973 he was head of display window decoration at

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. He joined the Amsterdam Council for the Arts, which he chaired from 1961 to 1970. In 1972 he became chairman of the board of directors of the

Gerrit Rietveld Academie The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is an art academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design. History The Instituut voor Kuns ...

. Premsela was also chairman of the COC Nederland and made an important contribution to the acceptance of homosexuality in the Netherlands. The Benno Premsela Prize initiated in 2000 was named after Premsela. in 2002 a new national institute for design was named after him as well, the Premsela Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion.

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PREMSELA, Benno (1920-1997)
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