Starting as a part-time professor (of artistic anatomy, aesthetics and western art history) at Tokyo School of Fine Arts (present Tokyo University of the Arts), Ogai also served as an instructor of aesthetics at Keio University, an examiner of the western painting department of 'the 1st Bunten exhibition,' the director general of Imperial Museum, the 1st director of The Japan Art Academy and so on.
その鴎外は、上記のとおり東京美術学校（現東京藝術大学）の嘱託教員（美術解剖学・審美学・西洋美術史）をはじめ、慶應義塾大学の審美学講師、「初期文展」西洋画部門などの審査員、帝室博物館総長や日本芸術院初代院長などをつとめた。