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 on May 22, the son of a father who descended from Polish Catholic immigrants and a mother of Bosnian Serb descent from Sarajevo. He was baptised in the Serbian Orthodox faith. In 1914 Kosta Hakman was arrested by Austro-Hungarian occupators as a member of the South Slavic liberation movement Young Bosnia. In 1919, he finished Grammar School and began his painting studies. From 1921–1924 he studied painting in Kraków, 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 in Belgrade. 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 in Opatija on December 9.

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