Manfred Zylla
Born in Germany when Adolf Hitler was in power, Manfred Zylla came to South Africa in 1970 and almost immediately produced work which was scathingly direct in its political and social content and highly critical of the National Party’s apartheid system. Zylla dealt directly with topical subjects of the day such as the Soweto uprisings of 1976 and the subsequent events of the turbulent 1980s. This is shown in the print Thami (1984) (plate 231) a coloured etching and aquatint in the Campbell Smith Collection. Read More…
