Ursula Hauser’s interest in art and collecting goes back to the 1950s, when she acquired her first sculpture while still a young woman in training, studying textiles. Over the ensuing decades, she has thoughtfully forged one of the world’s most important private collections of modern and contemporary art. Her passion for collecting is focused on painting and on what she calls ‘the other sculpture.’ It is not the pleasing ‘beautiful’ picture that fascinates her but rather work that may be raw, unpolished, and, on occasion, even disturbing. Hauser instinctively seeks out art that touches her emotionally, that is both personally and intellectually challenging.