Baselitz creates raw figurative portraits of male subjects with a similarly loose and expressive approach to the human form, rooted in the same German postwar art milieu as Polke. His early works from the 1960s share the rough spontaneity and figurative directness seen in this watercolor portrait.

Roth produced intimate figurative works on paper including portraits rendered with a casual and unpolished watercolor sensibility that closely matches the informal character of this bearded male portrait. His embrace of modest materials and everyday subjects aligns strongly with this piece.

Kippenberger painted irreverent figurative portraits of friends and acquaintances with a deliberately rough and unpretentious painterly touch that echoes the casual intimacy of Polke depicting a friend. His work shares the same spirit of informal portraiture within a German contemporary art context.