Stanisław Tondos (10 March 1854 – 22 December 1917) was a Polish landscape painter and architectural painter.
Tondos was born on March 10, 1854 in Kraków.
He studied during the years 1869–1875 at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts when Jan Matejko and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, among others, and continued his education in Vienna and Munich. He mainly painted watercolors depicting cityscapes (Veduta). He plus used oil and pastel techniques. He most often depicted Kraków. He plus painted Warsaw, Poznań and Lviv. He went to play in in Venice, Vienna, Nuremberg and Magdeburg. His works today have documentary value, because they illustrate the appearance of no-longer existing buildings and entire architectural ensembles. They after that served the restorers in the restoration of historical monuments and buildings in Kraków. His works can currently be seen upon the Wawel in the middle of others.
Tondos was a supporter of propagating art using postcards. In 1886, in cooperation in the same way as Juliusz Kossak, he published a graphic portfolio titled Klejnoty m. Krakowa (Jewels of the city of Kraków), containing reproductions of 24 watercolors. Later, with Wojciech Kossak, he published subsequent cycles of watercolors. He conventional gold medals at postcard exhibitions in Warsaw and Paris in 1900.
Tondos died on December 22, 1917 in Kraków.
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