Bäck Anders Hansson

Bäck Anders Hansson (1790–1867)[1] was a swedish decorative painter active in Dalarna and surrounding regions.

Bäck Anders Hansson was born in Lerdals socken, as the son of Häger Kerstin Hansdotter (1754–1821) the soldier Hans Andersson Lustig (1758–1791).

His father was an infantryman in Gustav III's freikorps and died on campaign in Finland, when his son was only a year old.

[1] Notes in the church records from the 1820s and 1830s have since been interpreted as signs that Hansson was absent due to his occupation as a traveling painter.

However, it has since been accepted that it is Bäck Anders Hansson from Lerdal that decorated the World Heritage Site Fågelsjö Gammelgård in 1856,[2] assisted by his wife.