In 1955, he graduated from the Royal College of Art in Copenhagen; there, he studied ceramics and painting.
Early in his career, he began as a painter, but he quickly shifted his focus to ceramics, with him writing a book on the Raku technique.
[2] Then, in 1970, on a trip to Toronto, where he gave a lecture on ceramics for Sheridan College, he was convinced by a friend to try experimenting with hot glass.
He then moved to London, where he encouraged others to become glass artists and improved the reputation associated with the form of art throughout Europe.
At the beginning of the 1980s, at a symposium in Vienna, Lynggaard suggested for a museum to be established in Ebeltoft, where he had moved to in 1980 and had set up a glass studio.