Kippenberger shared Oehlen's irreverent German Neo-Expressionist sensibility and tendency toward gestural abstraction with a conceptual underpinning, producing works with a similarly raw nocturnal energy and provocative compositional dissonance.

Förg worked in a comparable vein of German abstract painting during the same period, using bold gestural marks and a reduced yet expressive visual language that echoes the dark tonal atmosphere and planar abstraction seen in Plakat (Nacht).

Wool shares Oehlen's interest in the intersection of abstraction and graphic visual language, employing a cool yet expressive approach to large scale painterly surfaces that carries a similarly urban and nocturnal psychological charge.