Kosta Hakman
1899-1961

Short biography

• 1899 — Born in Bosanska Krupa on May 22nd.
• 1914 — Arrested by Austro-Hungarian occupator as member of South Slavic liberation movement „Young Bosnia“.
• 1919 — Finished Grammar School. Started painting studies.
• 1921-1924 — Studies of painting in Krakow, Poland.
• 1925 — First individual exhibition.
• 1926-1929 — Stay in Paris, France.
• 1930 — Appointed teacher of 1st Male Grammar School in Belgrade.
• 1935 — Appointed expert teacher for ornamental drawing and aquarelle at Technical Faculty in Belgrade (Architecture Department).
• 1938 — Marriage with Bosa Pavlović. Death of brother Stefan.
• 1940 — Appointed fellow teacher of Academy of Visual Arts in Belgrade.
• 1941-1944 — Imprisonment in German concentration camp in Dortmund.
• 1945 — Continuing his work in Academy of Visual Arts in Belgrade, as fellow teacher.
• 1947 — Marriage with Radmila Lozanić. Appointed professor Academy of Visual Arts in Belgrade.
• 1949 — Birth of his daughter.
• 1958 — Retirement.
• 1961 — Died in Opatija, on December 9th.

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