Boris Messerer has been awarded many titles, prizes and awards. He earned the honorary title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation, the Order of Honor, and holds the post of president of the Moscow Theater, Film and Television Artists Association.
A distinctive feature of his work is that Boris never had a certain vector in which he worked. This is a man of wide views and a huge creative range. Boris Messerer is a capitalist who never stood in one place. He is a famous graphic artist, sculptor, easel painter, the best stage designer of both the Soviet and post-Soviet times.
Biography
Messerer Boris Asafovich was born on March 15, 1933 in Moscow. The aristocratic surname of their family sounded throughout the country. Messerer is a memorable, legendary and famous name to this day.
His father was a choreographer, a famous Soviet dancer and teacher, and his mother was a silent film actress and artist, she also worked for many years as the main artist of the Moscow Circus. In such a creative atmosphere, the future legendary theater artist, the famous Russian set designer, Boris Messerer, grew up. His biography continues to be written today.
Beginning of the creative path
According to Boris Asafovich himself, he inherited working capacity from his father, and from his mother - an artistic vision of the world. Asaf Mikhailovich (Boris’s father) was a very strong-willed and energetic person who, even on his eightieth birthday, danced one of his famous concert numbers “Football Player”. And the mother of the great theater artist was an amazingly beautiful woman with the so-called aristocratic beauty.
From childhood, Boris was distinguished by an independent character, freedom of love and his own opinion. He was always outside the influence of teachers.
When at the end of school it was necessary to make one of the most important life decisions: which university to enter, Boris Messeser was afraid to go to art. He was afraid that he would not be able to pass exams and withstand the upcoming load, so he decided to enter the Architectural Institute. And never regretted it. The architectural university has given the future legendary stage designer a lot, and he still appreciates it very much.
Painting
Many called Boris Messerer a non-conformist, but he always called himself an artist of "pure water." Back in the 60s, Messerer Boris Asafovich was considered the "king of Moscow Bohemia." The great legendary artist is endowed with a special, rare gift: turn ordinary things into meaningful artistic images. For example, a separate series of paintings is devoted, it would seem, to ordinary household things. Such as irons, gramophones, kerosene lamps. But each of these objects on his canvas acquire animation and a new, some special meaning.
Boris Messerer always first of all wanted to connect himself with art, to be a famous painter, but at one time he had to change his profession. And the artist connects the transition from art to portray reality with paints to theater, first of all, with his great teachers and idols: with Fonvizin and Tyshler, since at that time paintings could be sold exclusively through the artistic council. As soon as the slightest hint of unusual, non-standard thinking appeared, the picture was instantly rejected.
Then the theater became the salvation for many artists. Here, the then famous Russian set designer, Boris Messerer, followed the same path. A photo of him is presented later in the article.
Theatre
Today, the famous name of Boris Asafovich Messerer is associated with more than one hundred and fifty dramatic, opera and ballet performances in various Russian and foreign theaters.
The legendary stage designer set his first performances in the Moscow Sovremennik. Performances immediately brought him to the forefront of theatrical art. As a result, it was this practice that gave Messerer a colossal experience and a big name.
To this day, such amazing performances as “Carmen Suite” by Alberto Alonso, who brought the idea of ​​modernism to the Bolshoi Theater, “The Queen of Spades”, “The Appointment” and “The Third Wish” in Contemporary, are still connected with his hand. The performance “Further silence” in the Moscow City Council, “Suicide” and “Andryusha” in the Satire Theater and many, many others.
Personal life
The first marriage that Boris Messerer entered into was with Nina Chistova. Ballerina of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia gave Boris his son Alexander. But the marriage of the artist and artist was not so happy, and soon they divorced.
From childhood, Alexander Nina tried by all means to drag him into the ballet, but Boris immediately said that the child would be an artist. And so it happened. The legendary painter instilled in his son a sense of color, taught to choose the right compositions and tones. Thanks to this, Alexander Messerer became a famous artist who holds annual exhibitions of his paintings.
Boris met his second wife, Bella Akhmadulin , in 1974. The story of their happiness, which lasted until the death of her beloved, still seems to live and breathe in her poems and his paintings.
Love story of Boris and Bella
Bella was a famous poet and writer. They met quite spontaneously and accidentally at the Cinema House, located on Povarskaya Street. Now there is a film actor's theater.
Boris Messerer was simply fascinated by her. Bella won his heart at first sight when she came to the Cinema House in the snow and with snowflakes in her hair. Before meeting with his beloved Boris did not read her poems and did not even suspect that she was a famous poetess.
After they met, he still did not want to read her poems because there were always a large number of people around the writer. And it was never impossible to understand: these people who admired either poetry or Bella herself. Boris did not want to become one of those fans.
Once returning home after a working day, the artist found Bella writing a poem. Then, having first read her creation, Boris grabbed the first nails that came to hand and nailed a piece of her work to the ceiling. So it hangs for forty years.