Ludvík Vocelka

The sculptor Ludvík (also known as Luděk or Lůďa) Vocelka studied from 1899 to 1906 at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design (UMPRUM ) in Prague under the guidance of Stanislav Sucharda and Celestin Klouček whose studios concentrated on figural and ornamental modelling. In 1905, he already owned his own private sculpture studio, in which he opened a ceramics department in 1919 where he reproduced Jan Štursa's artistic legacy. He participated in the sculptural decoration of St. Wenceslas Church in Kladno-Rozdělov and, for the tympanum of the entry portal, created a Sculpture of Saint Wenceslas on horseback (1927). He dedicated his freelance work to relief portraits of significant Czech personalities – Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Viktor Dyk and Jan Neruda.

Ludvík Vocelka worked in Litomyšl in the early 1920s. He created the rich Secession-style stucco relief decoration of the Lidový Dům, built by Václav Šilhavý between 1921 and 1922. It is most probable that he cooperated with the architect Šilhavý on other commissions in Litomyšl, as he is said to have been the designer of the exterior stucco ornamentation of Langmajer Villa built in 1923 (04-597). On the facade of the villa there is a relief of a Secession-style allegorical female figure based on a well-known relief Poklad by Stanislav Sucharda (Vocelka's tutor at UMPRUM in Prague) according to a motif from the poet Erben's work Kytice.

1912
Memorial to Miroslav Tyrš
Tyršovo Square, Vysoké Mýto

1922
Lidový dům
Kpt. Jaroše 392, Litomyšl

1927
Saint Wenceslas on Horseback
St. Wenceslas Church, Kladno-Rozdělov

1947
Memorial plaque to Josef Dygrýn
Upper Square 300, Humpolec