Ingjald Bäcksbacka and Christina Bäcksbacka Collections

Working beside his father from a young age, Ingjald (1925–1978) became the leader of Taidesalonki after Leonard Bäcksbacka's death in 1963. He also continued assembling art for the collection. Ingjald Bäcksbacka had a significant role in organising Leonard and Katarina Bäcksbacka's donation, which he prepared at the beginning of the 1970s for many years before it was officially donated to the city in 1976. After Ingjald Bäcksbacka, his daughter Christina Bäcksbacka continued running Taidesalonki – one of the oldest galleries in Helsinki – from 1978 to 2020. According to Christina Bäcksbacka's wish, the collection her grandparents assembled was separated into one body of work and the collection's later additions into another under the name of the father and daughter. The collection was founded in 2018, and all works donated by Christina Bäcksbacka since 1980 were transferred to it.