# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernest-mancoba
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:27:45.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernest-mancoba"
name: "Ernest Mancoba"
slug: "ernest-mancoba"
description: "Ernest (Methuen) Mancoba was an avant-garde artist, born in Transvaal Colony, who spent the majority of his life in Europe. He was probably South Africa's first professional Black modern artist, and exhibited from the late 1920s onward."
tagline: "South African artist (1904-2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1904-08-29"
deathDate: "2002-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.475774666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Mancoba"
    title: "Ernest Mancoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Mancoba"
    title: "Ernest Mancoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Mancoba"
    title: "Ernest Mancoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Mancoba"
    title: "Ernest Mancoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Mancoba"
    title: "Ernest Mancoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Mancoba"
    title: "Ernest Mancoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3057074"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump