Do König Vassilakis: The Biography

Born in Dillenburg, Germany, the second of four daughters, Do's father was a textile merchant and her mother was an opera singer. Her art studies begin at the studio of the noted maestro, Professor Peter Paul Fechner in the Southern Germany university town of Tübingen, where she first learned about sculpture, and continue at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lausanne.

In 1968 she meets the Greek sculptor Takis at the Biennale di Venezia and the two live and work together for 16 years, from Paris to New York to Cambridge to the Spanish village of Carboneras where they build a house on the sea along with Soto, Le Parc and other French and South American artists who had abandoned Paris after May 1968.

Takis and Do return to their home in Gerovounos, near Athens, after the end of the Greek dictatorship in 1974, and for the next 10 years they live and work together in Greece. In 1989 Do moves to the Lucca area, where she lives in the village of Valdottavo. She works there and in the foundaries of Pietrasanta and Impruneta. Her works have been seen at many exhibitions around the world.