Olives; Leibnitz submitting to Queen Sophie Charlotte the Plan for Academy of Sciences; Christ Crucified.—Müller, 400.
OËR, THEOBALD VON, Baron, born at
Nottbeck, near Sternberg, Westphalia, Oct.
9, 1807, died in Dresden, Jan. 30, 1885.
History and genre painter, pupil in Dresden,
1826-31, of Matthäi, then in 1832-36
of Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow.
Having travelled in Belgium, France, Switzerland,
Italy, and Algiers, he settled in
Dresden in 1839 and became professor and
honorary member of the Academy. Works:
Hans Sachs; Death of St. Elizabeth (1835);
Dying Bedouin; Algerian Jewess; Camoens
and his Negro; Italian Girl (1838), Lucas
Cranach consoling Elector John Frederic in
his Captivity at Innsbruck (1848), Leipsic
Museum; Albert Dürer visiting Bellini in
Venice (1853), Dresden Museum; Maria
Theresa at the Coffin of her Husband;
Death of Tasso, Frederic the Great in
Rheinsberg, The Neapolitan Woman; First
Reading of Schiller's Robbers (1845); Pulpit
Candidate before the Old Dessauer;
Young Officer reading aloud the Sorrows
of Werther; Weimar's Golden Age; Winckelmann
as Librarian of Count von Bünau,
Leibnitz before Queen Sophie Charlotte
(1875).—Müller, 399; Wiegmann, 154;
Kunst-Chronik, xx. 315.
OESER, ADAM FRIEDRICH, born at
Pressburg, Hungary, Feb. 18, 1717, died in
Dresden, March 18, 1799. German school;
history painter, pupil of Vienna Academy
and of Raphael Donner, with whom he is
said to have visited Italy; won the grand
prize at the age of nineteen; went in 1739 to
Dresden, and in 1749 decorated Castle Hubertsburg;
lived for some time at Dahlen,
painting for Count von Bünau, and in 1763
became director of the Leipsic Academy,
professor at the Dresden Academy, and
court painter. Works: Abraham's Sacrifice
(1835); Noah and his Son; The Good Samaritan;
Disciples at Emmaus; Isaac and
Esau; Witch of Endor; Artist's Children
(1766), Dresden Gallery; Solomon adoring
Idols, Christ healing the Sick, Young Woman
distributing Fruit, Allegory, Marriage at
Cana, Leipsic Museum; Painter's Studio,
Weimar Museum. Fresco paintings in St.
Nicholas, Leipsic.—Dürr, A. Fr. Oeser
(Leipsic, 1879); Huber, ii. 140; Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 553; Larousse, xi. 1260; Wurzbach,
xxi. 16; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xxi. 140,
286.
OESTERLEY, KARL (WILHELM
FRIEDRICH), the elder, born at Göttingen,
June 22, 1805. History and portrait painter,
pupil of the Dresden Academy under
Friedrich Matthäi; went in 1827 to Italy,
where he studied the works of Fra Angelico,
Giotto, Masaccio, and Perugino; returned
to Göttingen in 1829, studied in Düsseldorf
under Schadow in 1835-38, and after the
frescos of Cornelius at Munich in 1838, visited
Paris in 1842, Düsseldorf in 1844, and
became court painter at Hanover in 1845.
With Ottfried Müller he published the well-known
work, "Monuments of Antique Art."
Works: Götz von Berlichingen imprisoned
and nursed by his Wife (1826); Departure
of Tobias (1829); Wittekind converted to
Christianity by Ludgerus (1833); Moses in
Prayer between Hur and Aaron, Jephthah's
Daughter (1835); Ruth, Naomi, and Orpah,
Christ presenting to his Disciples a Child as
Example (1836); Leonore (1839); Christ
blessing the Children (1841); Christ and
Ahasuerus (1844); Beatrice and Dante at
the Gate of Paradise (1845); Moses beholding
the Promised Land (1846); Leonore
with her Mother (1847); St. Christopher,
Samuel consecrated to the Service in the
Temple (1849); Come ye that are Heavy
Laden (1851); Christ Crucified (1852); The
Two Brides (1855); Sleeping Beauty awakened
by the Prince (1862); Memling nursed
by Nuns (1866), Provinzial Museum, Hanover;
Adoration of the Magi, Gypsies Resting
(1867); Portraits of King Ernst August
of Hanover, of Professor Gervinus, and
many others. In fresco: Ascension (1838),
Royal Chapel, Hanover.—Andresen, iii. 168;
Förster, v. 529; Wiegmann, 186.
