Boris Messerer was awarded many ranks, awards andawards He earned the honorary title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation, the Order of Honor, and is President of the Moscow Association of Artists of Theater, Cinema and Television.
A distinctive feature of his workis that Boris never had a definite vector in which he would work. This is a man of broad views and a huge creative range. Boris Messerer - an artist with a capital letter, which never stood in one place. He is a famous graphic artist, sculptor, easel painter, the best set designer both at the Soviet and after the Soviet times.
Biography
Messerer Boris Asafovic 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 Sovieta dancer and teacher, and her mother an actress of silent films and an 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 stage designer Boris Messerer, grew up. His biography continues to be written today.
The beginning of the creative path
According to Boris Asafovitch himself, from his fatherinherited performance, and from the mother - the artistic vision of the world. Asaf Mikhailovich (Boris's father) was a very strong-willed and energetic man, who even for his eightieth birthday danced one of his famous concert numbers “The Footballer”. And the mother of the great theater artist was an amazingly beautiful woman with so-called aristocratic beauty.
Since childhood, Boris was distinguished by an independent character, love of freedom and his own opinion. Was always outside the influence of teachers.
When at the end of school you had to take oneof 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 the exams and withstand the upcoming load, so he decided to enter the Architectural Institute. And never regretted it. The architectural university gave the future legendary set designer a lot, and he still appreciates him very highly.
Painting
Многие называли Бориса Мессерера non-conformist, but he always called himself an artist of "pure water". As early as the 1960s, Messerer Boris Asafovitch was considered the “king of Moscow bohemia.” The great legendary artist is endowed with a special, rare gift: to turn ordinary things into meaningful artistic images. For example, a separate series of paintings is devoted, it would seem, to ordinary everyday things. Such as irons, gramophones, kerosene lamps. But each of these objects on his canvas get animated and new, some special meaning.
Boris Messerer always always wantedto associate 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 depicting reality in colors to the theater primarily with his great teachers and idols: with Fonvizin and Tyshler, since at that time the paintings could be sold exclusively through artistic advice. As soon as even the slightest hint of unusual, out-of-the-box thinking appeared, the picture was instantly rejected.
Then the theater became a salvation for many artists. Then the famous Russian stage designer Boris Messerer followed the same path then. His photo is presented later in the article.
Theater
Today, the famous name of Boris Asafovich Messerer is associated with more than one hundred and fifty drama, opera and ballet performances in various Russian and foreign theaters.
The first performances of the legendary set designerput in Moscow "Contemporary". The performances immediately brought him into the first rows of theatrical art. As a result, it was this practice that gave Messerer a tremendous experience and a great name.
With his hand still associated suchamazing performances like Carmen Suite by Alberto Alonso, who brought the idea of modernism to the Bolshoi Theater, The Queen of Spades, Appointment and The Third Desire at Sovremennik. The play "Further Silence" in the Moscow Soviet, "The Suicide" and "Andryusha" in the Theater of Satire and many, many others.
Personal life
The first marriage that Boris Messerer concluded waswith Nina Chistova. Ballerina of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia presented Boris with a son Alexander. But the marriage of the artist and the actress was not so happy, and soon they divorced.
Since childhood, Alexandra Nina tried allforces drag him to the ballet, but Boris immediately said that the child would be an artist. So it happened. The legendary painter instilled in his son a sense of color, taught him 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 Akhmadulina, in 1974. The story of their happiness, which lasted until the death of his beloved, still seems to live and breathe in her poems and his paintings.
The love story of Boris and Bella
Bella was a famous poet and writer. They met quite spontaneously and by chance in the House of Cinema, located on Povarskaya Street. Now there is a theater actor.
Boris Messerer was simply fascinated by her.Bella won his heart at first sight when she came to the House of Cinema in the snow and with snowflakes on 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 was stillI 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 poems, or Bella herself. Boris did not want to become one of those fans.
Once back home after work,the artist caught Bella writing a poem. Then, having read her work for the first time, Boris grabbed the first nails that came to hand and nailed a sheet of her work to the ceiling. So he hangs for forty years.
