Painted in 1983, Landung Auf Einem Planeten is a monumental portrait of A.R Penck beside his friend and fellow contemporary Georg Baselitz. Untamed, Penck and Baselitz were of the Neue Wilden movement; those who found motivation in mythology and figuration. Referring to neo-expressive tendencies of the 1980s, the term Neue Wilden was used across Germany to characterise paintings with bright, intense colours and hasty, broad brushstrokes; artistic production that stood in opposition to the then dominant avant-garde aesthetics.