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Annette Himstedt and her family were refugees from Germany after the Second World War. Due to this, her childhood was rather unusual in as much as she did not have any dolls as a young girl! Later in life as an adult, Anette, then an insurance saleswoman, tried to make a doll i the likeness of her daughter, and as the saying goes - the rest is history. Anette taught herself how to sculpt dolls out of porcelain, practised and honed her sculpting modelling her work on neighboring children, and she turned herself into a world-known, self-taught doll artist. As well as the artistic influences, quite often a child''s face would inspire her sculpting- she would often photograph children that she sees (with permission of course) which she used for inspiration. Her sculpting is done in her home in Germany, and then her dolls are produced at her factory in Spain under Ms. Himstedt''s close supervision. Many doll collectors and critics consider Annette Himstedt to be the most influencial doll sculpter of the modern doll era. Now having announced her retirment, her twenty three years of dollmaking was filled with creativeness, marvellous personalities and fun. Annette altered the way the world appreciates dolls and her retirement - although well-deserved - will make her original dolls even more rare and precious