At present, the term is used by German-language journalists to describe any group within a tradition that seeks to undermine established authority.
[citation needed] In 1978, the Junge Wilde painting style arose in the German-speaking world in opposition to established avant garde, minimal art and conceptual art.
It was linked to the similar Transavanguardia movement in Italy, USA (neo-expressionism) and France (Figuration Libre).
The Junge Wilde painted their expressive paintings in bright, intense colors and with quick, broad brushstrokes very much influenced by Professor at the Academy of Art in Berlin, Karl Horst Hödicke (b:1938).
The term Junge Wilde began to be used by the media in the 1990s with reference to a certain group of politicians who bucked party leadership to make their names.