Oscar Krockow Von Wickerode

Count Oscar Krokow von Wickedrode (1826-1871) was a German animal painter.

Oscar Krokow von Wickedrode was born at Thine in Pomerania in 1826. 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 the Tyrol, Switzerland, Italy, and Russia, and in the last-named country he spent nine months in the Białowieża Forest, studying the habits of buffalos. At the close of these travels he settled in Berlin, where he died in 1871.

As a passionate sports-man he loved to depict game, a talent which Zimmerman pointed out to him. A ‘Boar Hunt’ of 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.’