1980s Finn Lynggaard Two Studio Vases, of Blue Glass with Silver Decorations

Finn Lynggaard studied painting and ceramics at the Royal College of Arts in Copenhagen, graduating in 1955. He shifted first from painting to ceramics, authoring a book on Raku technique, then to glass-making in 1970, and became known as the father of Danish studio glass. In 1985, he and his wife, glass artist Tchai Munch, founded the world’s first museum of glass in Ebeltoft Denmark. The museum’s collection of contemporary glass has over the years been established with the support of more than 700 internationally recognised glass artists from all-over the world. These artists have all generously donated or lent work to the collection, which today comprises more than 1500 objects.