[1][2] She was the daughter of Louise Frederikke Anna-Mathea (Vitté) Bartholin, a Danish aristocrat, and Johan Laurentius Helenus Börjeson, a professor of sculpture at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.

[1] She created small statues in her early career, some of which were sold at Herman Bergman Konstgjuteri AB.

[1] She remained in Paris throughout the war, where she met Swedish artist Ivan Lönnberg, a volunteer in the French army.

[1] They dated until his death in April 1918 in the war, she was pregnant when he died and lost their child.

[1] In 1919, she started researching a meeting-place for visiting Swedish artists in Paris, backed by art dealer, Gösta Olsson; businessperson and director of Tändstickbolaget, Gunnar Cederschiöld; and Swedish ambassador Johan Ehrensvärd.