Hans Körnig
curriculum vitae
| 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 |
