Otakar Čičátka was born on 20 January 1914 in Nové Zámky. He was a sculptor, figurative artist, portraitist and monumentalist.

He originally began training as a locksmith. At the same time, however, he was intensively searching for ways to fulfil his vision of his future profession. From 1932 to 1934 he received professional preparation under sculptor Alojz Rigele and painter Karol Harmos in order to gain admission to university studies.

From 1934 to 1938 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, in the department of figurative and monumental sculpture in the studio of academic sculptor Bohumil Kafka, and from 1939 to 1942 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest under academic sculptor Ferenc Sidló. After completing his studies, he returned to Nové Zámky and began working independently. He created his works from fired clay, stone, bronze, hammered copper and sandstone. He produced dozens of reliefs on buildings, fountains and sculptures for the exteriors of public spaces and later also ecclesiastical ones. From 1951 he lived in Bratislava together with his wife Mária and son Aurel.

A few examples from Otakar Čičátka’s sculptural work: in his hometown of Nové Zámky there is a sculpture on the building of the Municipal Office and the so-called House of Peace on the Main Square, two female figures in the Kovák Cultural Centre, a fountain in front of the House of Services (abstract metal sculptures), and a family group sculpture in front of the railway station. The Art Gallery in Nové Zámky holds a collection of more than 40 of his works.

Further works include the Monument to the Martyred Railway Workers in Bratislava (1948), the Triumphal Arch for Slavín in Bratislava (1954), the reliefs Engineering and Textiles on the building of the Slovak University of Technology (1952; dozens of Slovak sculptors contributed to the relief decorations here), and the decoration of the façade of the Czechoslovak Embassy in Pyongyang, Korea (1957). His further monumental works are represented in Bratislava in the buildings of the former PKO, Slovak Television, the Carlton and Devín hotels, and in the towns and villages of Veľké Kapušany, Prešov, Michalovce, Nitra, Galanta, Čierny Balogh, Dunajská Streda, Štúrovo, Tále and Brandýs nad Orlicí. Among his last works were the sculptures The Good Shepherd and The Holy Family for the Parish Church of the Good Shepherd in Vienna, and Saint Camillus, Protector of the Sick for the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna (1971).

In Prievidza, his relief Woman can be found on the building of the House of Culture — KaSS on Fraňa Madvu Street.

Otakar Čičátka died on 18 August 1993 in Bratislava.