Covi, an Austrian, trained as an innkeeper in Switzerland and later ran the Hotel Trinserhof in Tyrol. He inherited his love of reliefs from his grandfather, the cartographer and relief maker Fritz Ebster (1901-1979). In his spare time, Covi had made quite a few small and large-scale reliefs, mainly of Austrian regions.

[1] This article bases on Mair, Toni. Grieder, Susanne. Das Landschaftsrelief – Symbiose von Wissenschaft und Kunsthandwerk. Mit Schweizer Reliefkatalog. Verlag hier+jetzt. Baden, Schweiz. 2006. S.156.