- Kosta Hakman
Kosta Hakman (1899–1961) was one of the greatest
Bosnian Serb painters of the 20th century.Biography
He was born in 1899 in
Bosanska Krupa onMay 22 , the son of a father who descended from PolishCatholic immigrants and a mother ofBosnian Serb descent fromSarajevo . He was baptised in theSerbian Orthodox faith. In 1914 Kosta Hakman was arrested byAustro-Hungarian occupators as a member of theSouth Slavic liberation movementYoung Bosnia . In 1919, he finished Grammar School and began his painting studies. From 1921–1924 he studied painting inKraków ,Poland . He had his first individual exhibition in 1925. In 1938 he married Bosa Pavlović. Among his many offices, he was appointed fellow teacher of Academy of Visual Arts inBelgrade . From 1941–1944 he was imprisonment in the German concentration camp in Dortmund as a prisoner of war. In 1947, he remarried with Radmila Lozanic, and was appointed a professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Belgrade. In 1949 his first daughter was born, following with his retirement in 1958. Kosta Hakman died in 1961 inOpatija onDecember 9 .ee also
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