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Oscar Krackow Graf von Wickerode (1826-1871) was a German animal painter.Wickerode was born at Thine in Pomerania. At the age of seventeen he entered the studio of Wilhelm Krause. In 1849 he went to Munich in order to pursue his studies under Albert Zimmermann; during 1856-59 he lived in Paris; he then travelled in to Tyrol Switzerland Italy and Russia where he spent nine months in the forest of Bielowicz studying the habits of the buffalo.