Adam Friedrich Oeser (February 17, 1717 - March 18, 1799) was a German painter, sculptor, and illustrator active in Dresden and Leipzig. Oeser was bornin Pressburg, today's Hungary, and apprenticed there under E. F. Kamauf (1696 - 1749). He moved to Vienna in 1730 to study further under Jacob van Schuppen (1670 - 1751) and Raphael Donner (1693 - 1741). In 1764, Oeser became director of the Leipzig Academy of Art, a position he held until his death, some 35 years later. His students included the polymath Johann Wolfgang Goethe )1749 - 1832) and his son-in-law Christian Gottlieb Geyser (1742 - 1803). He was a member of the Leipzig Masonic Lodge Minerva zu den drei Palmen. Oeser died in Leipzig at 82.
