Josef Casimir Hofmann was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.
Josef Hofmann
Hofmann in 1916
Hofmann as a young man at the keyboard
Josef Hofmann playing solos in the Metropolitan Opera House gala on November 28, 1937, the 50th anniversary of his American debut.
Podgórze is a district of Kraków, Poland, situated on the right (southern) bank of the Vistula River, at the foot of Lasota Hill. The district was subdivided in 1990 into six new districts, see present-day districts of Kraków for more details. The name Podgórze roughly translates as the base of a hill. Initially a small settlement, in the years following the First Partition of Poland the town's development was promoted by the Austria-Hungary Emperor Joseph II who in 1784 granted it the city status, as the Royal Free City of Podgórze. In the following years it was a self-governing administrative unit. After the Third Partition of Poland in 1795 and the takeover of the entire city by the Empire, Podgórze lost its political role of an independent suburb across the river from the Old Town.
View of Podgórze and Józefińska Street from the river Vistula
St. Joseph's Church, built 1905–1909
Tadeusz Pankiewicz's "Eagle pharmacy" pharmacy at the heart of Kraków Ghetto in World War II