Alexander Messerer

b. 1960

Alexander Messerer’s art is centred on landscape.

Work on a painting begins with prolonged observation. Messerer seeks a specific spatial condition.

His painterly language is built on the rhythm of the brushstroke and the relationship between light and form.

Forms are deliberately simplified.

The chromatic structure is based on ochre, green, and muted blue tones, organising the space.

His work is created in the Vologda region, near the Ferapontov Monastery, working directly from the landscape.

Alexander Messerer graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He lives and works in Peredelkino near Moscow and spends the summer months in the Vologda region.

Works are held in museum and private collections in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the United States.

Selected exhibitions

2025, Summer Days, Tsvetaeva Family Museum, Tarusa

2018, Open Sky, Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery Museum

2002, Land of Silence, Gallery on Solyanka, Moscow