Background
She was born in Horten, a daughter of merchant and brewery owner Johan Anthony Zincke Broch.
She was born in Horten, a daughter of merchant and brewery owner Johan Anthony Zincke Broch.
She was a sister of children"s writer Lagertha Broch, zoologist Hjalmar Broch, and linguist Olaf Broch. Broch was appointed housing inspector for the health authorities in the municipality of Oslo from 1919 to 1945. Among her best known exhibitions were "Flaskeberget" on the effects of alcoholism, and "Vasshølet" on women"s burden on carrying water.