Axel Lind was born on August 1, 1907 in Copenhagen. He initially wanted to become an opera singer, but he worked for many years as a journalist. Axel Lind participated in the Finnish Winter War as an ambulance driver, where he also sang for the soldiers and reported on the war for the newspaper Politiken in Copenhagen.
But in the early 1950s, Axel Lind completely re-saddled. He became an artist, focusing on sea motifs in all their forms. Axel Lind later settled in Sweden and lived for almost 30 years in the famous "Villa Lindarna" in Hovås outside Gothenburg.

As an artist, Axel Lind received several awards and is today represented in Nordic museums and in public collections. During the artist's lifetime, Axel Lind also carried out his own exhibitions in Vancouver, Quebec, Seattle, Brisbane and Sydney.

About a hundred years after the breakthroughs of the famous Skagen painters, such as P.S Krøyer and Michael Ancher, Axel Lind joined the contemporary Skagen painters in the late 1970s.
Axel Lind became the initiator and founder of Grenens Kunstmuseum in Skagen in 1977. The museum has since then been a popular excursion destination, attracting tens of thousands of visitors. Grenen Kunstmuseum is today led by Axel Lind's widow, Kirsten Lind.