He was born on February 16, a rich Moscow family of a merchant of the first guild and hereditary honorary citizen, Vasily Efremovich, received their first child, future artist Nikolai Mescherin. It is interesting that in the same year Nicholai’s father founded the Danilovskaya manufactory.
1864 - 1916
Nikolai Mescherin
description
A Russian landscape painter, a co-owner (along with his brothers) of Danilovskaya Manufactory.
Attending only private lessons (that is, not having received any systematic special art education), he mastered the techniques of the Impressionists, giving them both his attitude and his manner of performance. The artist brought to the landscapes a share of lyricism and inner warmth, causing the reciprocal wave of benevolence of the viewer. The national theme is attractive in Mescherin’s paintings: most of them present the artist’s low-key beauty of Central Russian nature, which he understood and loved, according to N. Nekrasov, an author of many essays about the artists, “like a of a tender and devoted son”.
Key ideas:
Taking private painting lessons from the Wanderers (graphic artists, landscape painters and painters) in the 1890s, Mescherin learned various techniques of painting, including separate small neat strokes, as well as energetic-wide pasty brush strokes.
Landscapes made in a dull tonality are filled with special lyricism and subtle poetry. The pointillism technique, successfully implemented by the artist in some landscapes, was also the reason for this mood of the canvases.
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1906 - 1907
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1916
The birth of the artist
The sudden death of his father
The sudden death of his father; the eldest son took over the management of the affairs and the Dugino estate, not having graduated from the Moscow Practical Academy of Commercial Sciences, which all three sons entered at the insistence of their father.
The beginning of the 1990s – N. Mescherin began painting classes. I. Grabar, who worked with him at the same workshop for a long time, said that Nikolai’s teachers were A. Korin and V. Perepletchikov, who was Mescherin’s fellow student at the Practical Academy.
Met I. Levitan
Met I. Levitan; this acquaintance was very important for N. Mescherin.
The artist participated in the exhibition of the Moscow Association of Artists
The artist participated in the exhibition of the Moscow Association of Artists with his paintings “Aspen trees with snow” and “Oak”. In the following years, he exhibited his canvases at different exhibitions, including those of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, the Union of Russian Artists and the World of Art group.
Became an active member of the Union of Russian Artists
Became an active member of the Union of Russian Artists.
His five works were chosen for the exhibition in Paris and Berlin
His five works were chosen for the exhibition in Paris and Berlin at the large Russian art exhibition organized by S. Diaghilev and the Union of Russian Artists. Two paintings were purchased at the Tretyakov Gallery – “Huts” (1901) and “In arable land” (1904).
Nikolai Mescherin gave some paintings to the opening of the Vyatka Art Museum
Nikolai Mescherin gave some paintings to the opening of the Vyatka Art Museum.
The death of the artist
He died on October 9 in his estate, where he lived almost without a break for the last 12 years. He was buried in a holy place – the nearby Holy Cross Lukinsky Monastery.
1917 – At the fifteenth exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists, his friends organized an exhibition of 30 works by the artist. Large exhibitions of works by Mescherin were held in 1987 and 1994.