Artur Degner was born in 1878 in Grumbinnen. Degner attended the art academy in Königsberg and then went to Berlin via Munich. In 1912 he came to Paul Cassirer, where he met the avant-garde artists who influenced his career. Artur Degner later became a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. He always remained a painter of figurative expressionism, although his later work also showed tendencies towards abstraction.

Artur Degner was born in 1878, in Gumbinnen. In 1909, the artist was based in Berlin. In 1911, he became a member of the 'Free Secession'. In 1910, at the suggestion of Paul Cassirer, he traveled to Paris. In 1912, his artwork was displayed in a gallery.