Oeser, Adam Friedrich
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.
First economic thematic map -Robinson
Neue Carte von Europa welche die merkwürdigsten Producte und vorn ehmsten Handelspläze nebst den Flächen-Inhalt aller Europäischen Länder in deutschen Quadrat-Meilen... [New map of Europe which contains the strangest and most prestigious products of trading places together with the surface content of all European countries in German square miles...]
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An important and influential piece, this is the first edition of A. F. W. Crome's 1782 separate-issue thematic map of Europe illustrating production and economics. It is considered the first thematic and comparative map printed in Europe and, as such, had a profound impact on subsequent cartography, particularly in Germany and France, where Crome's methodology inspired a wave of new thematic cartography. (more details)