Teofil Ociepka (1891-1978) Teofil Antoni Jaksa Kwiatkowski, known universally as Teofil Ociepka, was a Polish self-taught primitivist painter, occultist, and theosophist whose distinctive artistic vision captivated audiences worldwide. Born April 22nd, 1891, in Janów Śląski (present-day Częstochowa Voivodeship), Poland, he passed away January 15th, 1978, in Bydgoszcz. Alongside Nikifor Khrachevsky and Henri Rousseau, Ociepka stands as one of the most prominent figures within Polish primitivism—a movement characterized by its rejection of academic conventions and embrace of raw emotion and in…