Kris Torne

[1] After painting landscapes and portraits, one of which won a prize at the 1900 Paris Exposition, in 1906 she began creating embroidered works and rugs based on cartoons by her husband Oluf Wold-Torne.

[2] In 1894, Kris Laache spent the summer in Vågå together with a group of painters who were interested in advancing from the clear Realism of the times to a more atmospheric approach to painting with deeper colour and in a simpler style.

In addition to Kristen Holbø who was a native of Vågå, they included Halfdan Egedius, Lars Jorde, Thorvald Erichsen, Alfred Hauge, Oluf Wold-Torne, Alice Pihl, Johanna Bugge Berge and Lalla Hvalstad.

[7] 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.