He initially apprenticed both as a house painter and a diarist before training as a woodcarver under Sophus Petersen and Bertel Olsen for the age of 21 while in the same time attending Copenhagen Technical School.

He also worked as an assistant in Vilhelm Bissen's and Anders Bundgaard's studios.

He was also represented at exhibitions in Brighton (1912), Stockholm (Liljevalch, 1919), Gothenburg (1923 and 1939), New York City (Brooklyn Museum, 1927), Oslo (1931).

He was awarded the Eckersberg Medal in 1919 for a bust in oak Kunstgips Ferdinandsen and again in 1920 for Ægyptere.

[4] Lund worked with restoration of sculptures at the Danish National Gallery from 1914.