Goethe called Adam Friedrich Oeser, his teacher of all things aesthetical, "one of the most talented people of our century." In teaching, iconography, book illustration or matters of taste - this Academy director from Leipzig has to be considered an important innovator during the second half of the 18th century. This catalogue presents 55 of Oeser's drawings and also includes an introduction on the artist as reformer and teacher of famous pupils. German text.