Born on 1 February 1867, possibly
Trondheim or
Steinkjer, Christine Laache was the daughter of
Nils Jacob Laache (1831–1892), a priest and later bishop of Trondheim, and his wife Oline Andrine Nielsen (1835–1911). She was one of six children. In 1897, she married the painter Oluf Wold-Torne (1867–1919). In the 1890s, she studied under
Eilif Peterssen and
Harriet Backer and from 1899 to 1900, she was a student of
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen in Copenhagen. That autun, together with Phil, Bugge Berge and Hvalstad, Laache established an association in Kristiania known as "Den dekorative forening" (The Decorative Society). After returning to Vågå in 1895, in 1897 Kris Torne painted in
Kviteseid Municipality in
Bratsberg county, together with a group including Wold-Torne, whom she had just married, Hvalstad and Erichsen. Thanks to a series of grants, she was able to travel to France and Italy. At the 1900 Paris Exposition, her "Portrait of a Young Girl" received an award. Together with her husband, in 1904 she spent a year in Italy. She continued to paint portraits and landscapes for a number of years before turning to textile art. Working from her husband's cartoons, she embroidered decorative works and created rugs. In 1925, in an exhibition with the Artists Association (Kunstnerforbundet), she presented textile works and paintings she had created over the previous 25 years, including her self-portrait from 1899, her prize-winning Paris portrait,
figure paintings from Italy and landscapes. Kris Torne died in
Florence, Italy, on 24 April 1946. ==References==