Biography and information
(II gender. XIX–beg. XX centuries) Sculptor self-taught, restorer, draftsman and painter. From a family of Baltic Germans. Worked in St. Petersburg (1870-1900). Was engaged in restoration of porcelain, figurines and bronze sculptures to antique dealers and collectors. Performed reduction (reduced copies) and variations of works by Russian sculptors for bronze capital firms. In 1878, at the foundry at reduced Smirnova E. the NAPs model was cast bust of A.V. Suvorov V. I. Demoute-Malinowski (1814). At an early stage in the work of E. NAPs repeatedly used the stories of E. A. Lansere, and generally was under his strong influence, which is reflected in his sculptural groups, as "the General M. D. Skobelev on a horse" (1878, bronze, CMCB), "Troika in winter" (1880, bronze, the Museum, the Museum of horse breeding, PGHG, skhm), "Royal Falconer XVII century on the horse" (1881, bronze, Museum of horse breeding, BGHM), "Cossack on horseback" (1882, bronze, collection of A. I., Neustroeva, Rezh, Sverdlovsk region). The original works of the NAPs include the sculptural group "Cart with three horses and five riders crossing the bridge" (1879, bronze, T., "three"), the statuette of "Plastun roly-poly on patrol" (bronze, 1870s, Umgeni), two paired candlesticks "Lamplighters" (bronze, game. The nineteenth century, GRM, GIM, Umgeni) and ink "lumberjack over dinner in the woods" ("the Farmer on the stump", 1889) widely tirazhirovatjsya of Kasli and Kusa factories in the early twentieth century All the known works of E. NAPs are evidence of his professional possession of bronze art.
