Zelda Nolte

Zelda Nolte was born in 1929 in Cape Town

Zelda Nolte was born in Cape Town in 1929. She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich, which was then directed by Johannes Itten. She also studied sculpture at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town under Professor Lippy Lipshitz.

Nolte worked as a sculptor and a woodblock printmaker. She showed her work in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Brazil, the United States, Italy, Israel and the United Kingdom. In 1963 she represented South Africa at the São Paulo Biennale.

She held solo exhibitions in Cape Town in 1963 and in Jerusalem in 1971. Her work is held by the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town and the New Hall Art Collection at the University of Cambridge. She died in 2003.