Elli Hemberg was born in Skövde in 1896 and began studying with Carl Wilhelmson at an early age in 1918, and later in Paris, Holland and Norway. In the beginning, her choice of subjects was characterized by portraits, interiors, landscapes and cityscapes. At the beginning, her painting was characterized by objectivity but later developed into a finely tuned, blond value painting. In the late 1930s, she met Otto G. Carlsund who became a close friend and it was also Otto who encouraged her to have her first exhibition in 1942. Later, in the late 1940s, Hemberg was inspired by art critic Jay Hanbridge's "The elements of dynamic symmetry" and translated his theories into three-dimensional works, and thus she left painting to start sculpting. Hemberg is best known for her public sculptural works in, among others, Lund, Norrköping, Stockholm and Skellefteå. Elli Hemberg is represented at the Moderna Museet, Malmö Art Museum, Kalmar, Vänersborg and Skövde museums and the Museum of Sketches in Lund.