by Martina Clavadetscher

They have achieved fame and yet remained unknown - women who have posed as models for great (mostly male) artists: the girl with the pearl earring, the lady with the ermine and countless other women in world-famous paintings by da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Courbet and others. But who were these women? What stories do they have to tell? Bochum-based theater and film actress Friederike Becht brilliantly brings these women to life from the surprising and touching sketches of Swiss book prize winner Martina Clavadetscher. VOR ALLER AUGEN revolves around the idiosyncrasies of art production, modeling as well as the brutal market behind it, but also around the constant "being looked at", "being an object" and the personal entanglements between model and painter.