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Elena(Helen) König Scavini

Helen König Scavini (1886-1974) was born in Turin, to an Austrian mother and a German father. Her personality, her predisposition for Art made her travel a lot in Europe which led her to Germany, where she graduated as a teacher in Düsseldorf in 1907.

In 1915 Helen returns to Turin, where she meets and marries Enrico Scavini. After the loss of her first child from Spanish Flu, Helen took up the heartbreaking hobby of making dolls that she imagined could have been toys for her daughter. The story is tragic, but out of König’s heartbreak came wonderful ceramics that tell a history of Italian ceramic manufacturing.