Alexander Messerer
Alexander Messerer
b. 1960
Alexander Messerer’s art is centred on landscape as a form of visual balance. His works engage with motifs of northern monasteries, landscape, and roads.
Work on a painting begins with prolonged observation. Messerer seeks a specific spatial condition before beginning to paint.
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 of the works is based on ochre, green, and muted blue tones, organising the pictorial space.
Since the early 1990s, the artist has consistently developed a focused range of motifs, returning to them at different scales and in varying states. A significant part of his work is created in the northern areas of the Vologda region, near the Ferapontov Monastery, where he spends extended periods 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 with his family in a village in the Vologda region.
The artist’s 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
b. 1960
Alexander Messerer’s art is centred on landscape as a form of visual balance. His works engage with motifs of northern monasteries, landscape, and roads.
Work on a painting begins with prolonged observation. Messerer seeks a specific spatial condition before beginning to paint.
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 of the works is based on ochre, green, and muted blue tones, organising the pictorial space.
Since the early 1990s, the artist has consistently developed a focused range of motifs, returning to them at different scales and in varying states. A significant part of his work is created in the northern areas of the Vologda region, near the Ferapontov Monastery, where he spends extended periods 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 with his family in a village in the Vologda region.
The artist’s 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
Alexander Messerer
b. 1960
Alexander Messerer’s art is centred on landscape as a form of visual balance. His works engage with motifs of northern monasteries, landscape, and roads.
Work on a painting begins with prolonged observation. Messerer seeks a specific spatial condition before beginning to paint.
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 of the works is based on ochre, green, and muted blue tones, organising the pictorial space.
Since the early 1990s, the artist has consistently developed a focused range of motifs, returning to them at different scales and in varying states. A significant part of his work is created in the northern areas of the Vologda region, near the Ferapontov Monastery, where he spends extended periods 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 with his family in a village in the Vologda region.
The artist’s 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
b. 1960
Alexander Messerer’s art is centred on landscape as a form of visual balance. His works engage with motifs of northern monasteries, landscape, and roads.
Work on a painting begins with prolonged observation. Messerer seeks a specific spatial condition before beginning to paint.
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 of the works is based on ochre, green, and muted blue tones, organising the pictorial space.
Since the early 1990s, the artist has consistently developed a focused range of motifs, returning to them at different scales and in varying states. A significant part of his work is created in the northern areas of the Vologda region, near the Ferapontov Monastery, where he spends extended periods 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 with his family in a village in the Vologda region.
The artist’s 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
Selected Artworks
Alexander Messerer
A Dream in the Garden
1998, 70 × 60 cm Oil on canvas
Alexander Messerer
Lilac Still Life
2023, 50 × 35 cm Oil on canvas on cardboard
Alexander Messerer
Boat in Pankovo
2016, 40 × 50 cm Oil on canvas
Alexander Messerer
Autumn in Ferapontovo
2015, 50 × 70 cm Oil on canvas
Alexander Messerer
Footbridges in the Evening
2016, 50 × 70 cm Oil on canvas
Alexander Messerer / Anna Messerer
Soligalich
1998, 70 × 90 cm Oil on canvas
Works by Anatoly Purlik
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