Johann Jacobs Museum

These mixed forms may include sublime works of art as well as everyday utensils or social practices, such as seventeenth-century Chinese export porcelain, in which Dutch windmills are interpreted as flowers; West African mosques, whose facades adorn the formal language of Portuguese Baroque; or Protestantism, which in the 19th century introduced Swiss emigrants to Brazil. All of these hybrid forms point to unwritten chapters of transnational art history as well as questions of postcolonial history, sociology and anthropology.