Jānis Backāns (23 June 1925 – 2004) was a Latvian and Latgalian ceramicist.

[1] Jānis Backāns was born at Ezergailīši village in Feimaņi Parish, Latvia in 1925.

His grandfather Jāzeps taught him the ceramicist craft in his early days and later he was a pupil in the workshop of the famous Latgalian ceramicist Andrejs Paulāns.

[3] His works were selected for several exhibitions in Latgale and outside the Latvian SSR, in France, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.

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