Stanisław Tondos (10 March 1854 – 22 December 1917) was a

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landscape painter and

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Life

Tondos was born on in Kraków. He studied during the years 1869–1875 at the

Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, usually abbreviated to ''ASP''), is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Pol ...

with

Jan Matejko Jan Alojzy Matejko (; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Poles, Polish painting, painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works includ ...

and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, among others, and continued his education in Vienna and Munich. He mainly painted

watercolors Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

depicting cityscapes ('' Veduta''). He also used oil and

pastel A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...

techniques. He most often depicted Kraków. He also painted Warsaw, Poznań and Lviv. He went to work in

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, 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 also served the restorers in the restoration of historical monuments and buildings in Kraków. His works can currently be seen on the Wawel among others. Tondos was a supporter of propagating art using postcards. In 1886, in cooperation with 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 received gold medals at postcard exhibitions in Warsaw and Paris in 1900. Tondos died on in Kraków.

Gallery

file:Stanisław Tondos-Na Kazimierzu w Krakowie.jpg,

Kazimierz Kazimierz (; la, Casimiria; yi, קוזמיר, Kuzimyr) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the ...

file:Tondosa Wieża byłego ratusza miejskiego 1886.jpg,

Town Hall Tower, Kraków Town Hall Tower in Kraków, Poland ( pl, Wieża ratuszowa w Krakowie) is one of the main focal points of the Main Market Square in the Old Town district of Kraków. The Tower is the only remaining part of the old Kraków Town Hall (''Ratusz, se ...

file:Stanisław Tondos - Pałac Goetza.jpg, Watercolor depicting the in Brzesko

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tondos, Stanisław 1854 births 1917 deaths Artists from Kraków Polish landscape painters