E[duard] Klingebeil, Das Joachim-Quartett in der Singakademie, illustration, Berliner Leben: Zeitschrift für Schönheit und Kunst 4, no. 1 (January 1901): 11, digitized by the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/15599725_1901/19/LOG_0007/.
Eduard Klingebeil, born 1863 in Neuchâtel (Neuenburg), Switzerland, is described in the German National Library’s authority file as a watercolorist and illustrator who lived in Berlin; “E. Klingebeil” and “Ed. Klingebeil” are recorded there as variant forms of his name (GND 137977670). He is the only artist of that surname in the file, and the dates and Berlin residence fit a 1901 Berlin illustrated weekly.
Klingebeil was a jobbing illustrator rather than an exhibiting artist of note. What survives under his name in library catalogues is mostly book illustration, much of it juvenile fiction: Sigismund Rüstig, Der alte Trapper, Mamsell Übermut, Treue Freundschaft, Die Jüngste des Kleeblatts (DNB/lobid). Contemporary booksellers’ advertisements bear this out, e.g. a Riga notice for a volume “mit 4 Vollbildern u. 20 Textillustr. v. E. Klingebeil”.dom.ln. This is reportage illustration by a commercial magazine draftsman working “nach dem Leben” on deadline, not a documentary portrait group.
Of the two gentlemen in the inset at top left the one on the lower right can be identified as the artist Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (1815-1905), a regular attendee at the Joachim Quartet’s Singakademie series. The other figure may be Heinrich von Herzogenberg, but I am less certain about that identification. The same person appears to be sitting in the audience at lower left.
Thanks to Sanna Pederson for discovering this print.
[Illustration public domain]