From 1941-1949 she lived with Frau Petzold, an authoritarian and very religious foster mother, during which Pflug escaped into her own world of books, paper, and crayons.

[3] With little formal training behind her, Pflug continued to paint her everyday environs in a style that has been labelled magic realist.

"[6] On April 4, 1972 Pflug committed suicide by taking an overdose of Seconal[7] on the beach of Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island, which was one of her favourite outdoor painting places.

[8] A play based on her life—Christiane: Stations in a Painter's Life—by Francophone writer Marguerite Andersen was produced in 1996 by the Factory Theatre Cafe in Toronto.

[10] Pflug was praised for her rendering of Magic Realism in an excerpt from the Toronto Star newspaper (11 June 1969) that remarked, "[t]ime is distorted in her paintings.

They're worked on six hours a day for about nine months, and so the season's change- but the artist simply incorporates this change into her paintings.