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Oeser, Adam Friedrich
(b Pressburg [now Bratislava, Slovakia], 17 Feb 1717; d Leipzig, 18 March 1799). Austrian painter, sculptor and teacher. After a two-year apprenticeship in Pressburg, Oeser moved in 1730 to Vienna, where he studied oil painting and enamel work with Jacob van Schuppen (1670–1751), Daniel Gran and Martin van Mytens II. He was introduced to architecture and painting by Francesco Galli-Bibiena, while Georg Raphael Donner, a close friend, provided lessons in sculpting and an introduction to the art of antiquity. Between 1739 and 1759 Oeser worked in Dresden, becoming a friend of the antiquarian and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Oeser produced miniature paintings and portraits, which brought him wide recognition. He also carried out decorative commissions (mostly destr.).
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