Hans Körnig

1905	born in Flöha (Saxony)
1916	relocation to Dresden
1919-1929	apprenticeship and work as an electrician
1930-1933	student at the Kunstakademie Dresden under Professor Richard Müller, Hermann Dittrich, Ferdinand Dorsch, and Max Feldbauer
1935	relocation to the studio at Wallgäßchen in Dresden
1935/36	study journey to Italy
1937	study journey to France
1940-1945	military service, loss of his right lower leg, return home to Dresden
1949-1961	major artistic work
1951	marriage with Lisbeth Reichert an birth of the daughter Margarete
1953	first aquatint etchings
1961	Illegal vacation trip to Holland and Belgium, prevented from returning to Dresden due to the construction of the Berlin Wall, confiscation of his entire artistic oeuvre, new residence in Oberwinkling (Bavaria)
	since then mainly aquatint etchings, travel impressions are processed in cycles, Körnig devotes himself almost exclusively to drawing and etching, no longer to painting
1970-1989	increased focus on illustration, cycles based on the works of Kafka, Dürrenmatt, Cervantes, and Joyce
1988	last visit to Dresden on the occasion of the publication of his portfolio ″Fastnachtsspuk im Wallgäßchen″
1989	Self-death in Niederwinkling
1990	Urn burial at the Innerer Neustädter Friedhof in Dresden