"Koernig's painting drove like a mighty legend into Dresden's visual culture, it had something refreshingly barbaric about it, just as the expressionists of the Dresdner "Bruecke" movement once had, who around the time of Koernig's birth, but in a quite a different way , set a shock in motion."
Dieter Hoffmann
(Koernig's painted works. In: Hans Koernig. Paintings. Prints. 1992)


"His complete work is neither contrived nor thought up, but it has grown, grown out of the atmosphere of this city and the personal experiences of the painter. It is this genuineness which makes it appear so convincing and makes it stand out, over and above its mere local significance."
Fritz Loeffler
(Up in the attic on Wallgaesschen Alley 1. In: Die Union Newspaper 30.10.54)


"It is not seldom for Koernig's representations to be given a touch of the mysterious, even of the grotesque and the macabre, which is underlined by serious black and blinding lightenings up. In Koernig's paintings the world is often uncanny, it appears strangely alienated, with concealed levels, and ought to be viewed with scepticism.

Koernig is a man who can enthuse about many phenomena - but also someone who knows how to look at them critically, sarcastically, with biting wit, irony, satire and humour."
Werner Timm
(Speech)