Biography Hans Koernig

1905
born on the 22nd June in Floeha (Saxony)

1916
moves to Dresden

1919-1929
training and work as an electrician

1930-33
studies at the Dresden Academy of Arts under Professors Richard Mueller, Hermann Dittrich, Ferdinand Dorsch und Max Feldbauer

1935
moves to Wallgaesschen Nr. 1b

1935/ 1936
study trips to Italy

1937
study trip to France

1940-45
military service. Loss of his lower right thigh. Returns to Dresden

1951
he marries Lisbeth Reichert, widowed Thomas, birth of their daughter Margarete

1953
first aquatint etchings

1954
first exhibition in the attic

1955
second exhibition in the attic

1961
illegal holdiday travels with his family in Holland and Belgium. Prevented from returning home due to the building of the Berlin wall, he takes up new residence in Niederwinkling (Lower Bavaria)

after 1961
he predominantly creates aquatint etchings. In spite of very modest material circumstances he undertakes countless journies, revisualizing them in printed cycles.

in the 70's and 80's
his concerns turn to illustration once more. Extensive cycles of prints on the works of Kafka, Duerenmatt and Cervantes arise.

1988
his last visit to Dresden on the occasion of the publication of the "Fastnachtsspuk im Wallgaesschen" (Carneval spooking in Wallgaesschen Alley) portfolio.

1989
14th Oktober,
suicide in Niederwinkling

1990
12th Februar 1990,
his urn is laid to rest on the Inner Neustadt Cemetary in Dresden