Edward Ralph Kienholz (October 23, 1927 – June 10, 1994) was an American installation artist and assemblage sculptor whose pretense was highly valuable of aspects of militant life. From 1972 onwards, he assembled much of his artwork in close collaboration as soon as his artistic assistant and fifth wife,Nancy Reddin Kienholz. Throughout much of their career, the piece of legislation of the Kienholzes was more appreciated in Europe than in their native United States, though American museums have featured their art more prominently past the 1990s.
Art critic Brian Sewell called Edward Kienholz “the least known, most neglected and forgotten American artist of Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation of the 1950s, a contemporary of the writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Norman Mailer, his visual imagery at least as grim, gritty, sordid and depressing as their college vocabulary”.
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