Believe it or not, it’s time to look at the 2022 Austrian stamps. Not sure how Österreichische Post will top their mask and mittens from 2021, but I’m sure they’ll come up with something. If there’s one thing Austrian stamp designers excel in, it’s creating unusual and fun shapes. This year, we get toques – or woolen hats to the rest of the world.
The hats are a nice follow up to the wildly popular Mini FFP2 Mask.
David Gruber created this mini masterpiece that was embroidered on PPE material.
A number of established series will continue into 2022. They include:
- vintage motorcycles and cars
- musical instruments
- Historic Postal Vehicles
- classic Austrian stamps
- anniversaries for important Austrian industries
- EUROPA
- Christmas
Images will be replaced as the year progresses with better ones as Austria issues each stamp. NOTE: All crypto stamps can be found on the specialty world crypto stamp page.
January
Chocolate – interesting facts by Josef Zotter
24 page booklet with 2 postcards, 4 stamps & recipes
This booklet was created with Styrian chocolatier Joseph Zotter. Zotter Online Shop & World of Experience | Zotter Chocolate.
Release date: January 3, 2022
Austrian superfoods
booklet of 4 stamps
Release date: January 3, 2022
Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, info sheet
offset
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Designer: Marion Füllerer
Füllerer’s outstanding design last year was 50 Years of STAUD’s Vienna.
Release date: January 19, 2022
Arrival of the stagecoach
Series: Historic Postal Vehicles
1 stamp on a souvenir sheet, black print, FDC, cancel, info sheet
offset
Designer: Regina Simon
Simon also designed last year’s Historic postal vehicles stagecoach souvenir sheet as well as 4 other stamps.
Release date: January 19, 2022
Lohner-Porsche Mixte: first automobile with a serially produced hybrid propulsion system
Serie: vintage cars/vehicles
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black print, info sheet
offset
The 1899 Lohner Porsche, the first Hybrid Vehicle? (hybrid-vehicle.org)
The history of Porsche begins electrically – Porsche Newsroom
Designer: David Gruber
Gruber designed 11 stamps for the 2021 season, including the 2021 vintage vehicle stamp Pullman Graf & Stift SP 8 Pullman and the unique Christmas Mittens.
Release date: January 21, 2022
100 years of RIESS enamelware
1 stamp, packet of 4, cancel
Offset
This company has a rich tradition, with its roots dating back to the year 1550. That is when the original pan forge was founded in Ybbsitz in the Lower Austrian Mostviertel region. The manufacture of high-quality porcelain enamel kitchenware began here in 1922. Riess
The stamp shows a selection of colourful pots from the “Pastel” series that has been popular since the 1950s. RIESS uses natural raw materials to produce handmade pots, pans, and other kitchenware that are long-lived and recyclable.
The typical porcelain enamel results from iron that has been fused with siliceous glass at a temperature of 850°C, which creates a hard, non-porous and cut-resistance surface that is easy to clean while being odourless. Commemorative stamp 100 years RIESS enamel – PostAG
Designer: Anita Kern
Anita designed the following stamps for 2021 – Murbodner Dirndl, for the Classic Costumes series, Freimarken 1899 / Postage stamps from 1899, Austrian Federal gardens, 100 years of Austrian Philatelist Associations , Stamp Day 2021, 1905 Stamps of the Monachy, and 100 Years of Messe Wien.
Release date: January 21, 2022
February
Local Animal Kingdom
series 4
1 sheet of 4 stamps
- Brown rat
- European green toad
- Aesculapian snake
- tawny owl
Release date: February 1, 2022
St. Francis of Assisi Church, Vienna
series: Churches
1 stamp
Although no price appears on this stamp, Austria Post has it listed for 2,50 Euro.
Austria, city of Vienna, Saint Francis of Assisi Church (Kirche zum Heiligen Franz von Assisi) 1910.
Release date: February 1, 2022
Kiki Kogelnik – Dark Beauty
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black print, info sheet, packet of 4
offset
Kiki Kogelnik | Artist Profile | NMWA
Designer: Regina Simon
Release date: February 10, 2022
TITAN 350 Sport
Series: vintage motorcycles
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black print, info sheet
offset
Titan Motorcycles of Austria (cybermotorcycle.com)
Designer: David Gruber
Release date: February 11, 2022
Wollhaube – woollen hats
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, info sheet
offset
Woolen hats, or as we call them in Canada – toques!
Designer: David Gruber
Release date: February 16, 2022
Trombones
Series: musical instruments
1 stamp, FDC, cancel packet of 4, sheets of 10, black and white print sheet of 10, info sheet
offset
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: February 16, 2022
March
** Note: Austria traditionally releases a series of stamp packs in early March featuring Loyalty Bonus stamps and a variety of themes, including flowers and animals. These issues don’t always appear in some online catalogues, but I think they belong here. Quite often there are no designer notes or details to accompany the descriptions. I also include the annual spring postcard packages as well.
Happy Easter – stamps & stickers
2 stickers and 4 stamps
Release date: March 1, 2022
Colourful Flowers
20 self-adhesive stamps
Release date: March 1, 2022
Blooming Joy – Loyalty Bonus Stamps
20 stamps
Designer: Brigitte Heiden
Styrian artist Heiden has appeared on Loyalty Bonus stamps starting in 2010. She also designed the 2022 March 5 Loyalty Bonus single issue stamp and cancel.
Release date: March 1, 2022
Bumblebee
series: animals
1 stamp
Release date: March 1, 2022
Sacred Art
second in a series titled Sacred Art
2 stamps on a souvenir sheet
St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna
Mailänder Dom – Milan Cathedral in Milan, Italy
Release date: March 1, 2022
Flowers
4th in series
4 stamps on a sheet
Release date: March 1, 2022
Pets – our favourites
7th in series
8 stamps
Release date: March 1, 2022
Enjoyment from all over the world
20 stamps
Food and beverages from around the world.
Release date: March 1, 2022
Lionfish
Series 1
1 stamp
Release date: March 1, 2022
Animal babies on the farm
postcard booklet with 6 postcards and stamps
Release date: March 1, 2022
Animal Children in Schönbrunn Zoo
postcard booklet with 6 postcards and stamps
Homepage – Vienna Zoo (zoovienna.at)
Release date: March 1, 2022
Loyalty bonus brand 2021 – Black deadly nightshade
1 stamp, cancel
offset
Not for general sale. Sent to subscribers.
Atropa belladonna
Designer: Brigitte Heiden
Heiden Brigitte: Hügelland – Schöcklland (huegelland.at)
Heiden has designed Loyalty Bonus stamps starting in 2010 with Rose “Centifolia bullata”.
Release date: March 5, 2022
1908 Definitive Stamps – 60-year anniversary of Emperor Francis Joseph I’s accession to the throne
2 stamps on a souvenir sheet, FDC, cancel, black and white print, info sheet
offset
The original stamp was released January 1, 1908
This is part of an ongoing series that highlights classic Austrian stamps from the past.
Designer: Anita Kern using Koloman Moser original work
kerndesign – core design
Kern is the author of the Austrian Graphic Design in the 20th Century series. Among the many stamps she has designed include the include Definitives of Austria (2016, 2017, 2020, 2021) Heraldry I & II, Classic costumes (2013 to 2021).
Release date: March 5, 2022
Doesn’t hurt at all!
3rd in COVID series
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, info sheet
The stamp is composed of “material of sensitive skin plasters, has a “dressing pad” and an adhesive strip that can be peeled off – just like a real plaster” Österreichische Post
Designer: David Gruber
Release date: March 15, 2022
Steinhendl – Alp Stone Hen
1 stamp, cancel, sheet of 10, black print & sheet (non postal), info sheet
offset
Note: there are line drawings of the stein in the sheet margins. They are hard to make out unless you expand the image.
The Stein is one of the oldest chicken breeds in Austria, originating in the Alps. Because of shifts in farming practices in the 1970s, raising Steins decreased dramatically, to the point where only about 200 can be found worldwide.
Stein Chicken | Schloss Hof Estate
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Lubach designed 6 stamp last year including Lenten Veil of Millstatt (Carinthia) – Adam and Eve and Jochberger Hummel
Release date: March 25, 2022
Austrian Movie Museum
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black print (non postal)
offset
Since 1964, the Austrian Film Museum has been dedicated to the preservation, research and presentation of the medium of film. Its activities are as diverse as the medium itself: the Film Museum operates a cinema, preserves collections, and is a research and educational institution.
Above all, however, the Film Museum is a place of encounter with images and stories that, in the best case, can change our view of the
world. Film is the most important new art form and provides the most impressive contemporary documents since the beginning of the 20th century. Film Museum – Home
Designer Gertie Fröhlich (1930–2020) designed the Museum’s logo, basing the fish on the mythical “Zyphius”. “Gertie Fröhlich had seen this fantasy animal in a historical publication and thought that an animal that can live both on land and in the water would be a fitting symbol for the Film Museum, which she hoped would never go under.” Commemorative stamp Film Museum – PostAG
Designer: Anita Kern
Release date: March 31, 2022
Standing together for peace: Help for the people of Ukraine
Semi-postal
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, black print (non postal), info sheet
offset
This stamp is 1€ + a 2€ surcharge. For every stamp sold, 1€ will go to organisations providing help to the displaced Ukrainians fleeing the war being waged on them. Funds will be directed to Nachbar in Not and UNICEF.
Nachbar in Not – Neighbours in Need
NIN was formed in 1992, in the wake of the Yugoslavian war. It sought to provide humanitarian aid to some of the 1.5 million people fleeing to (hopefully) safety. Since that time NIN has provided help to Darfur, countries devastated after the 2004 Tsunami, Haiti, Pakistan, Romania, and others.
Designer: David Gruber
Release date: March 31, 2022
April
1st Easter Bunny Post Office
1 Easter Bunny postmark
6 postcards featuring “Holly Pond Hill” designed by Susan Wheeler & 6 stamps
1 souvenir sheet of 3 stamps featuring “Calvary Graz”
Following the long running success of long running Christmas Post Office, Austrian Post started up a special Easter Bunny Post office. Special cards and post marks were created for the event.
Special date:
April 11, 2022 from 10am to 2pm Pfarre Graz-Kalvarienberg, Kalvarienbergstraße 155, 8020 Graz
April 12, 2022 from 10am to 2pm at Pfarre Osterwitz, Osterwitz 1, 8530 Deutschlandsberg
Ruster Ausbruch DAC Golden Yellow Sweet Wine
1 stamp, cancel, sheets of 10, black print sheet of 10 (not valid or postage), info sheet
Austria’s ‘Ruster Ausbruch’ given DAC status – The Drinks Business
Rust | Austrian Wine
10. Nobly Sweet Wines | Austrian Wine
The city of Rust is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is well known for it’s nesting storks, an image used in the stamp. You can watch the storks here Webcam Rust (Burgenland): Stork-Webcam (webcamgalore.com)
Designer: David Gruber
Release date: April 30, 2022
Alexander Roda Roda (April 13, 1872 – August 20, 1945)
1 stamp on a souvenir sheet, FDC, cancel, black print (non postal), info sheet
offset
As a former army officer, Roda Roda knew what he wrote about. After all, it was mostly because of his humorous stories that he was stripped of his officer rank. This prompted him to have his uniform tailored into a red vest. Together with his monocle, this jacket was his trademark whenever he appeared in comedy clubs.
Commemorative stamp Roda – PostAG
German Biography – Roda Roda, Alexander (deutsche-biographie.de)
Roda was a satirist, humourist and writer. The caricature, used on this stamp, was the work of German artist Albert Weisgerber (1878-1915). He was an early expressionist and illustrator who was active in the vibrant Munich café scene prior to WW1.
Designer: Marion Füllerer
Release date: April 22, 2022
400th anniversary of the death of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen
1 stamp, cancel, black print (non postal), info sheet
offset
Feast Day of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen (catholic-saints.info)
Born 1578, died April 24, 1622. Beatified 1729. Canonized 1746. The image used in this stamp is a wooden sculpture carved sometime in the 17th century and is kept at the Sigmaringen monastery.
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: April 22, 2022
World Heritage UNESCO – Baden bei Wien
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, info sheet
Nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site status. It’s considered as part of the “The Great Spa Towns of Europe“.
Designer: Anita Kern
Release date: April 23, 2022
Christian Eisenberger – Untitled (head), 2009
Series: Young Art in Austria
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, info sheet, black print (non postal)
offset
Artist: Christian Eisenberger – Christian Eisenberger
Designer: Theresa Radlingmaier
Release date: April 26, 2022 *Previously slated for a June release
May
EUROPA 2022 – Der Eisenerzer Wassermann
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, sheets of 50, black print (non postal)
offset & hot foil printing
The Eisenerz Waterman (merman)
This is a legend from the Styrian mountains that explains how the Erzberg district became a rich source of iron ore. Locals near Leopoldsteiner Lake (near Erzberg) captured a “waterman” or a merman. The creature bargained with his captures and promised untold riches if they would release him. In return for his freedom, the people of Erzberg would receive one of the following rewards “gold for ten years, silver for a hundred years, or iron ore forever.”
After a great deal of thinking and discussion, they settled on iron ore and have been mining iron from the mountains since that time. After granting their reward, the merman leapt into a spring and disappeared. The spring is still called the Black Puddle.
How the ore got into the Erzberg | steiermark.com
Designer: Marion Füllerer
Release date: May 7, 2022
Maria Perschy (1938 – 2004)
1 stamp, FDC, cancel
offset
Internationally famous Austrian actress Maria Perschy — The Movie Database (TMDB) (themoviedb.org)
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: May 27, 2022
Landscapes – Amazing places in Austria
4 stamps, FDC, cancel
offset
- Krimml Waterfalls – highest waterfall in Austria Visit – Krimml Waterfalls (wasserfaelle-krimml.at)
- Seewinkel – town located on Lake Neusiedl in Burgenland
- Dachstein Mountain – Dachstein in the Salzkammergut | Dachstein Krippenstein (dachstein-salzkammergut.com)
- Blockheide nature reserve – Verein Naturpark Blockheide – Verein Naturpark Blockheide
Designer: Roland Vorlaufer
Release date: May 27, 2022
900th birthday of Frederick I Barbarossa: The Staufer Emperor
1 stamp, FDC, cancel
offset
Friedrich I Holy Roman Emperor from 1135 to 1190.
Frederick I Barbarossa in History | Student dictionary | Learning Aids (lernhelfer.de)
If you are looking for an interesting primer on Friedrich I, try SciHi Blog. Their entry on Barbarossa is approachable and interesting Life and Legend of Frederick Barbarossa – SciHi BlogSciHi Blog, so a good starting point to learn about this pivotal person in European history.
Designer: Karin Klier
Release date: May 27, 2022
May Postcard Booklets & Stamp sheets
6 postcards and 6 stamps
4 postcards & 4 stamps
4 postcards & 4 stamps
20 stamps
20 stamps
8 stamps
Postcard booklet – Auguste Renoir, Albrecht Dürer, Gustav Klimt at Lake Attersee
Stamps – Caricature Museum Krems, 125 years Secession, Chinese Paintings
Release date: May 2, 2022
June
Augustiner Bräustübl Mülln – Monastery with a world-famous brewery
1 stamp, cancel
offset
Augustiner Bräustübl Mülln traces it’s origins to Salzburg where the brewery was founded by Augustinian monks in 1621.
Designer: Regina Simon
Release date: June 10, 2022
Raab-Ödenburg- Ebenfurter Railway
1 stamp, cancel
offset
Designer: Peter Sinawehl
Release date: June 11, 2022
Pilgrimage Church of Maria Straßengel
1 stamp, cancel
offset
This Gothic church was established in the 14th C. It as built between 1346 and 1355. Some of the original stained glass remains intact.
For map fans, you can find the church at 47°6’47.114″ N 15°20’19.802″ E.
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Release date: June 26, 2022
Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Water, 1566
1 stamp, cancel
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books – that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognisable likeness of the portrait subject. Giuseppe Arcimboldo – The Complete Works – giuseppe-arcimboldo.org
Designer: Kirsten Lubach
Artwork is held by Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Release date: June 29,2022
MQ Libelle – MuseumsQuartier Vienna
1 stamp, cancel
offset
On September 4th 2020, the most beautiful cultural terrace in Vienna opened on the roof of the Leopold Museum. With free entry, MQ Libelle offers a view over the centre of the city to the Vienna mountains. Visitors are right above, yet right in the middle of the lively events taking place at the largest cultural complex in Europe. Named after its dragonfly shape, the space was designed by the architects Laurids and Manfred Ortner, who realised the MuseumsQuartier site in its current form at the end of the 1990s. MQ Dragonfly represents the creation of a new space for art and cultural projects over the rooftops of Vienna. Two of Austria’s most important artists have designed the central elements of the terrace and building. Eva Schlegel has designed MQ Libelle’s glass wall, while Brigitte Kowanz has created the iconic lighting fixtures on the terrace. MQ Libelle – MuseumsQuartier Wien (mqw.at)
Designer: Karin Klier
Release date: June 29,2022
July
100th Anniversary of the Birth of Georg Kreisler (1922-2011)
Satirist, songwriter, cabaret performer. playwriter, and novelist.
Kreisler’s song “Poisoning pigeons” makes an appearance on the stamp. Note the small pigeon in the lower left.
The experience of immigration and remigration is a central theme in his artistic work, as evident in many of his songs and musicals—most notably in Heute Abend: Lola Blau, one of the most widely performed works in contemporary European musical theater. Georg Franz Kreisler | Transatlantic Perspectives
Designer: Anita Kern
Release date: July 13, 2022
Lois Weinberger (1947-2020)
Onopordon acanthium Common Thistle 1995
“The bent plant suggests that nature has been damaged. Throughout his lifetime, the artist studied humankind’s interaction with nature and the phenomenon that humans can look at nature while being part of it.” Austria Philately News 2022 13.06.2022
… an early and visionary critic of the upheavals of the Anthropocene and is considered a pioneer of a distinct, artistic ecology. From the 1990s onwards, he played a significant role in shaping the discourse surrounding the relationship between nature and culture. Between ironic shamanism and conceptual but poetic rigor, his works show the limits of human agency and make our superiority over the environment perceptible as an illusion. Weinberger’s works challenge our ethical standards with the juxtaposition of the seemingly marginal, useless, and worthless. In doing so, they express with relish an all-encompassing, inescapable cycle of becoming and decaying. Lois Weinberger | Belvedere Museum Vienna
Artwork: Lois Weinberger – pencil on paper, common thistle
Designer: Regina Simon
Release date: July 6, 2022
150 Year Anniversary Austrian Hungarian North Polar Expedition 1872-1874
In 1871, the Austrian government dispatched veteran Arctic explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht to investigate this possibility. As Payer wrote, “Our ideal aim was the north-east passage, our immediate and definite object was the exploration of the seas and lands on the north-east of Novaya Zemlya.” Oficiální stránky: Komité Eduarda rytíře z Orlů – Články – The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition of 1872-74 (estranky.cz)
Designer: Robert Höfler
Release date: July tba
August
Vending Machine Stamps – Summer Flowers
2 philatelic vending machines stamps
They are offered with 3 different overprints, depending on where they are sold.
- Sunflower
- Rowanberry
Release date: August 1, 2022
Fliegenpilz | Fly Mushroom
Release date: August tba
Birdpex 2022 – swan
Release date: August tba
Birgit Jürgenssen 1949 – 2003
Photographer, artist, teacher
Release date: August tba
September
TBA
Release date: September tba
Stamp Day 2022
Release date: September tba
150 Years of railway line Feldkirch – Schaan – Buchs
Release date: September 9, 2022
100 years of Wagenburg in Schönbrunn
Release date: September tba
Paul’s initial Codex 26 f. 170r – Heiligenkreuz Abbey
Stift Heiligenkreuz – Seit 1133 eine Oase der Kraft (stift-heiligenkreuz.org)
Release date: September tba
150 years of BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Die BOKU feiert 150 Jahre::Stabsstelle Öffentlichkeitsarbeit::Staff units::Rectorate::BOKU Available in English & German
Release date: September tba
October
Technical innovation
Release date: October tba
Hurdles
Release date: October tba
Gustav Tauschek – Drum storage
Release date: October tba
November
TBA
Release date: November tba
150th birthday of Raissa Adler
Release date: November tba
Christmas
Release date: November tba
Christmas
Release date: November tba
Werner Berg’s family
Release date: November tba
Christmas
Release date: November tba
Don’t forget to stop by the page devoted to Austria’s 2021 stamps.
Donate & subscribe
Enjoying the content?
Consider donating or signing up for a subscription. Your contribution will help defray the costs of hosting the site and the time taken to research articles. Interested in sponsoring this page? Drop me a line contact @ bittergrounds.com
OR
Check out the Patreon tiers & perks: Become a Patron!
- Instant Coffee $2 a month
- Espresso Shot $5 month
- Espresso & Stamps $10 per month
- Deluxe Mocha & Box of Stamps tier – $25 per month.
0 Comments