A Witness in Gouache: The Poignant Legacy of Teofila Reich-Ranicki The history of twentieth-century art is often told through the lens of grand movements and aesthetic revolutions, yet some of its most profound contributions emerge from the quiet, desperate necessity of survival. Teofila Reich-Ranicki, born Teofila Langnas in 1920 in the vibrant industrial city of Łódź, Poland, occupied a space where art and testimony became inseparable. Her life, shaped by the shadows of the Holocaust, transformed her from a promising student of the fine arts into a vital visual chronicler of human sufferin…