Kosta Hakman

Kosta Hakman (; 22 May 1899 – 9 December 1961) was a Yugoslav and Bosnia and Herzegovina painter.

Early life 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 Tuzla Gymnasium, 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.

Although it did not have the reputation of the academies in Munich or Vienna, The Prague Academy was one of the more important European centers in which, since 1897 when Ivan Vavpotič from Ljubljana came to study there, more than a hundred artists from all our regions received their education. He spent two semesters at the Prague Academy: the first he barely finished successfully, and the second he failed. Discouraged by his personal failure, and dissatisfied with the studies at the Academy and the pedagogic approach of professor Vlaho Bukovac, Hakman decided to leave Prague. The exhibition was opened with a speech by the Polish consul in Belgrade, which gave the newspapers of the capital cause to describe the exhibition as "a fine example of Yugoslav and Polish friendship." The paintings by Hakman, created in Poland in 1924 or Bosnia in 1925, were mostly landscapes, characterized by strongly illuminated, decorative surfaces.

Hakman remarried in 1947 to Radmila Lozanić and their first daughter was born in 1949.

Kosta Hakman spent the final three years of his life in Opatija, where he died on 9 December 1961, of a heart condition.