After graduating from the university, Mollie Faustman began studying chemistry at Stockholm University. The realization that it was an artist that she really wanted to be, however, caused her to interrupt these studies, even though her parents opposed her artistic ambitions. Instead, she started working in an office, while at the same time writing short stories under a pseudonym in the illustrated weekly magazine "Hvar 8 dag", in order to create financial conditions for the looming art studies.

In the fall of 1905, she was able to begin her artistic educational journey at Valand in Gothenburg. There, she had Carl Wilhelmson as a teacher. Wilhelmson, unlike most other teachers in the art institutions at this time,...