Hans Hacker

Who was Hans Hacker?

Hans Hacker was a ceramic decal designer and painter.

Hacker was born on March 4, 1910 in the city of Waldenburg, Germany. Waldenburg was in the Silesia Province and became part of Poland after World War II. Hacker was one of seven children. His father August was a commercial ceramics artist and his mother, Eliese Moore Hacker, was a kindergarten teacher.

Hacker was showing and selling paintings by the time he was 11 or 12 years old. He graduated from the Breslau Art School in Breslau, Germany.