Aarau - The Aaraguer Kunsthaus (Aaraguer Count Art Gallery) - with the extension section, dominated by the two spiraling staircases, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
It's an interesting collection too, juxtaposing German expressionism (Muller, Kirchner etc) with medieval sculptures, and a room known as 'Caravan' which changes artists and is currently a selection of semi-automatic, fragile pencil and paper drawings. There's also a rodin and a Degas figure, a Giacometti bust and one of his wild pencil self portraits in which the self pours out - not an image thereof.
I was also interested in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "The Wanderer" - he wrote to Henry van de ralder saying "How are you, you eternal wanderer?" before painting it, so it is quite specific, yet also broad as it references Nietsche's Zarathustra:
I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart. I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.
And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience—a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself.
Which is somewhat befitting.
http://www.ag.ch/kunsthaus/en/pub/index.php
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