Kosta Hakman
| Kosta Hakman Коста Хакман |
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Korčula, 1930
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| Born |
22 May 1899 Bosanska Krupa, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 9 December 1961 (aged 62) Opatija, Yugoslavia |
| Nationality |
 Yugoslav
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| Education | Kraków Academy of Fine Arts |
| Known for | Painting |
Kosta Hakman (Serbian Cyrillic: Коста Хакман; 22 May 1899 – 9 December 1961) was a 20th-century Yugoslav painter.
Hakman was born in 1899 in Bosanska Krupa, the third child of local judge Mihailo Hakman, who descended from Polish Catholic immigrants, and Darinka Đurić, a teacher of Bosnian Serb descent from Sarajevo. He had three brothers, Mihailo, Stefan and Nikola and two sisters, Jelena and Zora. He was baptized in the Serbian Orthodox faith.
He finished elementary school in Tuzla. In 1908, he started attending the Grammar School in Tuzla, thought to be one of the best schools in Bosnia at the time, and also known for its liberal ideas nurtured by both professors and students.
The boy "of enormous height and brilliant intelligence" was soon noticed not only for his "gift for painting", and, as an excellent student, his talent for foreign languages, but also for his consciousness of "national belonging", which in his early years already brought him in touch with the political organization at school, one that was affiliated with the movement Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia), a South Slavic liberation movement.
After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, fifteen-year-old Kosta Hakman was arrested by Austro-Hungarian occupiers and convicted. He served his ten-month prison sentence in Bihać. After being released Hakman continued his violently interrupted schooling in Tuzla, from 1915 to 1917, when he was drafted into the army service, and then, when the war ended, in Sarajevo, where he completed the First Male Grammar School in 1919.
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