Curriculum Vitae
| Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen | 1951-1955 |
| Own pottery studio | 1956 |
| Associate member W.C.C. National Committee | since 1978 |
| Member of Crafts Council | since 1979 |
| Member of The Danish State Art Foundation | 1978-1981 |
| Professor at The School of Arts and Crafts, Copenhagen (Ceramics and glass) | 1974-1980 |
| Professor at The School of Arts and Crafts, Oslo, Norway | 1978-1979 |
| Founder of Glass Museum, Ebeltoft | 1985 |
| Chairman of the Foundation “Modern International Glass Art” | 1985-1996 |
| Present glass studio in Ebeltoft with Tchai Munch | since 1980 |
| Honours and awards: | |
| Knighthood, Ridder af Dannebrog | 1990 |
| Gold Medal Faenza, Italy | 1965 |
| Balardini Prize, Faenza, Italy | 1970 |
| Gold Medal, Faenza, Italy | 1975 |
| Urkunde für hervorragende Leistungen, Coburg, Germany | 1977 |
| Statens Kunstfond, 3-årigt arbejdslegat | 1984 |
| Danish Craft Council’s Annual Prize | 1991 |
| Gold Award, The Kristallnacht Project, USA | 1992 |
| Member of the Pilchuck International Council | 1993 |
| Juror in the Kanazawa Art Glass Exhibition, Japan | 1988,1990,1992,1995,1998,2001 |
| Honorary Member of Hungarian Glass Art Society | 1996 |
| Lifetime Honorary Member of Glasmuseum Ebeltoft | 1996 |
| Paul Harris Fellowship, Rotary International | 1997 |
| Lifetime Achievement Award, The Danish State Art Foundation | 1998 |
| Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society, USA | 2002 |
Exhibitions in various galleries and museums around the world since 1956 |
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| Selected Museums and Collections: | |
| Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Schweiz Museum für Kunsthandwerk,Frankfurt a/M, Germany Landesmuseum f.Kunst, Oldenburg, Germany Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet, Göteborg, Sweden The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan The Imperial Household, Japan International Museum, Faenza, Italy National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, USA |
Kunstsammlungen Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany Glasmuseum, Frauenau, Germany National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France Novy Bór Collection, Lemberg Castle, Czech Republic The Pilchuck Permanent Collection, Pilchuck, USA Museo Municipal de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcón, Spain |
Author of the following books: |
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| Ceramic Manual (Danish, Swedish and Spanish editions) 1968 | Dale Chihuly /Klaus Moje (Catalogue) 1991 |
| RAKU (Danish, Swedish and English editions) 1970 | Joel Philip Myers (Catalogue) 1993 |
| Pottery for Minors (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian editions) 1970 | Finn Lynggaard GLAS (Booklet) 1994 |
| Black Pots and Fire Pits (Danish) 1971 | Mutsuo Inoue Memorial Exhibition (Catalogue) 1996 |
| Form & Clay (Danish) 1974 | Finn Lynggaard Keramiker (Booklet) 1996 |
| The Glass Manual (Danish and French editions) 1975 | F.L. 25 år med Glas (Booklet) 1997 |
| Modern International Glass Art (Booklet) 1984 | The Story of Studio Glass (English) 1998 |
| YOUNG GLASS ’87 (Catalogue) 1987 | The Recipe Book (English) 1998 |
| Kyohei Fujita / Harvey Littleton ( Catalogue) 1989 | Kyohei Fujita - The Man and His Work (English & Japanese) 2000 |
| Glass from Soviet (Cataloque) 1990 | GLASS - an introduction (Danish) 2002 January 2003 |
