Alexandr Messerer
Paintings
Alexander Messerer was born on December 24, 1960 in Moscow. After graduating from high school, he entered the Moscow Art Theater studio school. After studying there for a short time, in 1983 he entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute at the Faculty of Artistic and Technical Design of Printed Products and graduated in 1988. Painting became his passion. Since the 1990s, he has participated in a number of joint exhibitions. Member of the Moscow Union of Artists.
Currently, Alexander and his family live and work in Peredelkino near Moscow. For the summer holidays, with their whole friendly big family, they move to their house in the village of Krasnovo, which is not far from the Ferapontov Monastery near Vologda. The northern nature, the ancient architecture of the northern monasteries and villages, the simplicity of rural life, the local beauty are reflected in his works of recent years.
The artist's works are in collections in Russia, USA, Germany, Switzerland, Italy.
Currently, Alexander and his family live and work in Peredelkino near Moscow. For the summer holidays, with their whole friendly big family, they move to their house in the village of Krasnovo, which is not far from the Ferapontov Monastery near Vologda. The northern nature, the ancient architecture of the northern monasteries and villages, the simplicity of rural life, the local beauty are reflected in his works of recent years.
The artist's works are in collections in Russia, USA, Germany, Switzerland, Italy.
Paintings by Alexander Messerer
The online collection representing the artworks from 1990 till nowadays.
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"I feel more keen with lines...
I like the experiments with colors and materials but feel more graphics and lines, and sometimes good interesting works come out of these feelings..."
Aleksandr Messerer
I like the experiments with colors and materials but feel more graphics and lines, and sometimes good interesting works come out of these feelings..."
Aleksandr Messerer
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"This line is sharp and precise...
Alexander Messerer is a graphic artist by education. At the heart of his painting there is the harmony of line and color spot, as the primary basis of form. This line is sharp and precise, then it turns into a long "Van Gogh" smear. In this contradiction of sharpness and nerve — on the one hand, and tenderness and lyricism — on the other, lies the special talent of the extraordinary personality of the artist."
Olga Selina, art critic, Museum of Frescoes of Dionysius
Alexander Messerer is a graphic artist by education. At the heart of his painting there is the harmony of line and color spot, as the primary basis of form. This line is sharp and precise, then it turns into a long "Van Gogh" smear. In this contradiction of sharpness and nerve — on the one hand, and tenderness and lyricism — on the other, lies the special talent of the extraordinary personality of the artist."
Olga Selina, art critic, Museum of Frescoes of Dionysius
Alexander Messerer is an artist and teacher, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. He was born on December 24, 1960 in Moscow in a hereditary theatrical and artistic family.
Grandmother, Anel Sudakevich, was known as a silent film actress, at the age of 25 she learned to draw from scratch and became a costume designer, worked at the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. One of her many works was the design of the "Evening of New Choreographic Miniatures" by K.Ya. Goleizovsky. Throughout her life she painted portraits, in 1969 she received the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Anel Sudakevich had a great influence on the formation of Alexander's creative views, she supported her grandson in his pursuit of art. Alexander's father is Boris Messerer, a theater artist, president of the Association of Theater, Film and Television Artists of Moscow. The choreographic part of the dynasty is also represented by his grandfather, Asaf Messerer, an artist and choreographer of the Bolshoi Theater, Maya Plisetskaya, a cousin of Boris Asafovich, as well as Alexander's mother, ballerina Nina Chistova.
Alexander Messerer entered, but did not graduate from the art faculty of the Moscow Art Theater Studio school, continuing his education at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. There he studied in the specialty "Artistic and technical design of printed products" and studied in the workshop of M.P. Miturich.
After studying, Alexander worked at the Raduga publishing house, with which B. M. Kustodiev, M. V. Dobuzhinsky, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, Yu.P. Annenkov collaborated in the past. Now Alexander Messerer is engaged in painting and graphics, as an illustrator he designed a book by Daniil Kharms translated by Manana Menabde, 2018, as well as such books of poems by Vasily Kryukov as "Salt and Lightning", "Mary's Apple Tree", "Up", "The First Snow", "Bread".
Alexander Borisovich participated in the exhibition "Artists of the Ferapontov Circle" together with Evgeny Skrynnikov, Elena Stroeva, Anna Kozlova-Messerer, Oleg Teplitsky, Lyudmila Lupushor, Irina Shchechkina, Anna Zamula. The artists' works show the influence of the nature of the Russian north, intertwined with the iconography and frescoes of Dionysius, who continues the traditions of Andrei Rublev. The individuality of Dionysius' monumental painting is in the original abundance of soft colors, rhythmic harmony of multi-contextual subjects combined with the architectonics of the cathedral. The unique nature here is adjacent to the unique energy.
The artist met his wife Anna Kozlova at painting classes in 1995. Since then, their personal destinies and creative successes go hand in hand. The couple has an old house in Ferapontovo in the Vologda region, where the family likes to spend the summer.
Grandmother, Anel Sudakevich, was known as a silent film actress, at the age of 25 she learned to draw from scratch and became a costume designer, worked at the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. One of her many works was the design of the "Evening of New Choreographic Miniatures" by K.Ya. Goleizovsky. Throughout her life she painted portraits, in 1969 she received the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Anel Sudakevich had a great influence on the formation of Alexander's creative views, she supported her grandson in his pursuit of art. Alexander's father is Boris Messerer, a theater artist, president of the Association of Theater, Film and Television Artists of Moscow. The choreographic part of the dynasty is also represented by his grandfather, Asaf Messerer, an artist and choreographer of the Bolshoi Theater, Maya Plisetskaya, a cousin of Boris Asafovich, as well as Alexander's mother, ballerina Nina Chistova.
Alexander Messerer entered, but did not graduate from the art faculty of the Moscow Art Theater Studio school, continuing his education at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. There he studied in the specialty "Artistic and technical design of printed products" and studied in the workshop of M.P. Miturich.
After studying, Alexander worked at the Raduga publishing house, with which B. M. Kustodiev, M. V. Dobuzhinsky, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, Yu.P. Annenkov collaborated in the past. Now Alexander Messerer is engaged in painting and graphics, as an illustrator he designed a book by Daniil Kharms translated by Manana Menabde, 2018, as well as such books of poems by Vasily Kryukov as "Salt and Lightning", "Mary's Apple Tree", "Up", "The First Snow", "Bread".
Alexander Borisovich participated in the exhibition "Artists of the Ferapontov Circle" together with Evgeny Skrynnikov, Elena Stroeva, Anna Kozlova-Messerer, Oleg Teplitsky, Lyudmila Lupushor, Irina Shchechkina, Anna Zamula. The artists' works show the influence of the nature of the Russian north, intertwined with the iconography and frescoes of Dionysius, who continues the traditions of Andrei Rublev. The individuality of Dionysius' monumental painting is in the original abundance of soft colors, rhythmic harmony of multi-contextual subjects combined with the architectonics of the cathedral. The unique nature here is adjacent to the unique energy.
The artist met his wife Anna Kozlova at painting classes in 1995. Since then, their personal destinies and creative successes go hand in hand. The couple has an old house in Ferapontovo in the Vologda region, where the family likes to spend the summer.
1995. "The paper surface of the earth", Peredelkino, Bella Akhmadulina's dacha, Russia
1996. "Stories beyond the Garden", EXPO–88 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002. "Land of Silence", gallery "On Solyanka", Moscow, Russia
2012. "The Visible and invisible World in the paintings of Anna Kozlova-Messerer, Alexander Messerer and the architectural research of Marina Vengerova", Moscow, Pokrovsky Gate Center; Ferapontov Monastery, Dionysius Frescoes Museum, Russia
2014. "Silver House", EXPO–88 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018. "Open Sky", Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery Museum, Russia
2021. Gallery "Sad", Moscow, Russia
1996. "Stories beyond the Garden", EXPO–88 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002. "Land of Silence", gallery "On Solyanka", Moscow, Russia
2012. "The Visible and invisible World in the paintings of Anna Kozlova-Messerer, Alexander Messerer and the architectural research of Marina Vengerova", Moscow, Pokrovsky Gate Center; Ferapontov Monastery, Dionysius Frescoes Museum, Russia
2014. "Silver House", EXPO–88 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018. "Open Sky", Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery Museum, Russia
2021. Gallery "Sad", Moscow, Russia