Digital Exhibitions

In this section, you will find digital exhibitions that bring the museum’s artworks and themes to life in an interactive way. They offer new perspectives on selected content, images, media and stories, and allow you to explore exhibitions and the museum’s collections anytime, anywhere. The digital exhibitions were created using the Google Arts & Culture platform.

Courbetorial

Gustave Courbet L‘Homme à la pipe, um 1849 Öl auf Leinwand © Musée Fabre de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole / Foto Frédéric Jaulmes — Gustave Courbet
*L‘Homme à la pipe*, um 1849
Öl auf Leinwand
© Musée Fabre de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole / Foto Frédéric Jaulmes

The Courbetorial is the digital companion to the exhibition I, Gustave Courbet. Painter and Rebel, on view at Museum Folkwang from 17 July to 8 November 2026 and developed in collaboration with the Leopold Museum. It offers in-depth insights into Gustave Courbet’s life, work and legacy, inviting visitors to explore key themes of the exhibition individually – from his radical visual language to his engagement with art, society and politics. For this purpose, Raphael Westermeier recorded literary texts by Charles Baudelaire, Lord Byron and Marie Luise Kaschnitz that relate to the exhibition. The Courbetorial was created using Google Arts & Culture.

Google Arts & Culture

Visit the Museum Folkwang online via Google Arts & Culture: explore selected works and stories from our collection in an international context, discover new perspectives and connections, and find your own playful way of engaging with art.