Desc: Tarn-Name A.R. Penck: Directed by Viktoria von Flemming. With A.R. Penck. Biography of A.R. Penck, one of the best known contemporary German artists. His real name is Ralf Winkler. The pseudonym, A.R. Penck, was one of many that he used while still living in East Germany and smuggling his pictures to the West.