Oscar Krackow Graf von Wickerode (1826–1871) was a German animal

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. Wickerode was born at Thine in

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. At the age of seventeen he entered the studio of

Wilhelm Krause Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (12 July 1833 – 4 February 1910) was a German anatomist born in Hanover. He was the son of anatomist Karl Friedrich Theodor Krause (1797-1868). Krause studied at Göttingen, where he became member of Burschen ...

. In 1849 he went to

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, in order to pursue his studies under Albert Zimmermann; during 1856–59 he lived in

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; he then travelled in to

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

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, and

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, where he spent nine months in the forest of Bielowicz, studying the habits of the buffalo. At the close of these travels he settled in

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, where he died in 1871. As a passionate sportsman Wickerode loved to depict game, a talent which Zimmerman pointed out to him. Among his works are ''The Crags of the Lauteschthal, Tyrol'', ''Evening on the Banks of the Narewka'', ''Buffalo Hunt'', and ''A Buffalo Cow Defending her Calf Against Wolves''.

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* ''Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Vol III H-M'', London, George Bell and Sons, 1904 1826 births 1871 deaths Counts in Germany 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters Artists from the Province of Pomerania {{Germany-painter-stub