Baselitz shares Oehlen's German expressionist roots and commitment to bold gestural brushwork on large canvas surfaces, creating works that feel simultaneously chaotic and deliberately composed with vivid color relationships.

Wool's postmodern approach to painting embraces a similar tension between abstraction and legibility, using layered mark making and a deliberately destabilized compositional logic that resonates strongly with Oehlen's experimental methodology.

As Albert Oehlen's brother and artistic peer, Markus Oehlen developed a nearly parallel visual language rooted in gestural abstraction, expressive color application, and postmodern skepticism toward painterly convention on oil on canvas surfaces.