at the Art Gallery at Kalemegdan. Throughout 1937, Hakman took part in a series of exhibitions. Three of them stand out, equally significant and interesting: two of them abroad—in Paris and Rome, the third in Belgrade, as the first presentation of the artists gathered in the group "Dvanaestorica." At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937, when, due to misunderstanding among the artists, the opportunity to display the work of Yugoslav artists, testifying of the unquiet years in Europe before the war, to the world together with Picasso's Guernica, Hakman presented his work with two paintings for which he received a gold medal. In 1938, he married Bosa Pavlović. In September of that same year, Hakman was deeply stricken by the death of his brother Stefan, whom he considered his "teacher" and "idol." His brother's death might have been the reason why Hakman painted little and exhibited rarely during the following two years, before World War II started. The war years sharply divided the work of Kosta Hakman into two parts. A drastic cut was made by a time spent imprisoned in a German concentration camp in Dortmund that he was taken to in 1941 as a prisoner of war. Although he tried to spend the time there helping his friends by using his knowledge of the German language to protect them, or organizing painting courses for prisoners, Hakman was unable to endure the terrible camp ordeal. He was sent home very ill towards the very end of the war in 1944 with the transport of sick prisoners. 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. References External links Biography 1899 births 1961 deaths People from Bosanska Krupa Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina painters Yugoslav painters