[1] The first members of the Artemis Quartet, Wilken Ranck, Isabel Trautwein, Volker Jacobsen, and Eckart Runge, met as students in Lübeck.
[3] Natalia Prishepenko, the subsequent first violinist of the quartet, resigned after 18 years of membership in the ensemble in 2012.
In April 2019, violinist Suyoen Kim and cellist Harriet Krijgh joined the ensemble.
In May 2021, the quartet announced a hiatus in its activities, with the intention to regroup in the future.
In 2015 the quartet was again awarded the ECHO Klassik in the category of chamber music recording of the year.