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Adam Friedrich Oeser (17 February 1717 in Pressburg – 18 March 1799 in

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) was a German etcher, painter and sculptor.

Biography

Oeser worked and studied in Pressburg (student of Georg Raphael Donner in sculpture) and

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at the Vienna Academy (student of

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and Daniel Grau in painting). He went to

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in Saxony in 1739, where he studied with Mengs and Dietrich, and created portraits and scenes for the Royal Opera, and mural paintings in Schloss Hubertusburg (1749). In 1756 Count Heinrich von Bünau commissioned him to decorate the newly built Schloss Dahlen. Oeser moved to Leipzig in 1759. Appointed director of the newly founded Academy there in 1764, he zealously opposed mannerism in art. He was a stout champion of Winckelmann's advocacy of reform on antique lines. He also befriended Winckelmann, who lived with him and his family in 1754/55. Oeser's chief importance was as a teacher. He was the drawing teacher of

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, with whom he kept up friendly relations afterwards at

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. Besides a number of decorative works, mostly ceilings, he painted mythological and religious canvases and portraits, among the best being: "The Artist's Children" (1766, Dresden Gallery), "Marriage at Cana" (1777) and four others in Leipzig Museum, and "The Painter's Studio" (Weimar Museum). His best effort in sculpture is the monument of Elector Frederick Augustus (1780) on the Königsplatz in Leipzig, which he created together with his student and architect Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe. In 1766 Oeser became a member of the Masonic Lodge ''Minerva zu den drei Palmen'', Leipzig. In 1776 he became a member of the ''Balduin'' Lodge, Leipzig. He resided in Germany. Among his pupils was

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.Profile of Sophie Dinglinger
at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''.

Notes

References

* This work in turn cites his biography by Dürr (Leipzig, 1879).

External links

Masonic Lodge ''Minerva zu den drei Palmen'' Leipzig
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oeser, Adam Friedrich German sculptors German male sculptors 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters German people of Austrian descent Artists from Bratislava Artists from Leipzig 1717 births 1799 deaths