# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/owusu-ankomah
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:00:12.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/owusu-ankomah"
name: "Owusu Ankomah"
slug: "owusu-ankomah"
description: "Owusu-Ankomah was a leading contemporary African artist with origins in Ghana. His work addresses themes of identity and the body, using his trademark motif of Adinkra symbolism. His work is also \"influenced by the art of the Renaissance, handwritten texts from ancient cultures such as the adinkra symbol system of the Akan people of Ghana, Chinese ideograms, and contemporary global cultures.\" Owusu-Ankomah was a trained artist from Achimota College, near Accra, \"established in 1936 and in 1952 incorporated into the University of Science and Technology at Kumasi.\""
tagline: "German artist (1956–2025)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1956-10-24"
deathDate: "2025-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.59
  momentum:             2
  historical:           5.938085333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.owusu-ankomah.de/index.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%85%DB%81"
    title: "اووسو-انکومہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87"
    title: "اوسو انكوماه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owusu-Ankomah"
    title: "Owusu-Ankomah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owusu-Ankomah"
    title: "Owusu-Ankomah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owusu-Ankomah"
    title: "Owusu-Ankomah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owusu-Ankomah"
    title: "Owusu-Ankomah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owusu_Ankomah"
    title: "Owusu Ankomah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3887749"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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