The list of Czech stamps 2021 includes a tribute to Czech stamp designer Václav Zapadlík who was responsible for the Czech Republic’s extensive list of transport and car issues. Several reoccurring themes will appear, including famous Czech personalities, famous works of art, architectural treasures, and the long running series on butterflies. 

I haven’t pulled up a lot of information on the designers and artists. When I manage to wade through the various websites, I’ll post some decent info and links. Click on the thumbnails to see larger versions of each stamp. 

Update March 27, 2021

New images are now up. They include First Day Covers, cancels and a postcard or two. When possible, I’m including where the FDC cancel is stamped. The more I poke around the post office website, the more material I find to include.  

 Czech stamps 2021 for Jan

Tradition of the Czech Stamp Design: Václav Zapadlík
 (23 September 1943 – 21 August 2018)

Detail from FDC

1 stamp, booklet of 8, FDC, cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Prague

Stamp features portrait of Václav Zapadlík and a few of his car illustrations

Release date: Jan 20, 2021

Census 2021

1 stamp

The symbols on the stamp are based on the graphic elements related to the census.
Czech Post Office

Designer: Jan Ungrád a Jan Moucha

Release date: Jan 20, 2021

Festival Carnival 

2 stamps, booklet

Designer: Jiří Slíva

Release date: Jan 20, 2021

2021 Feb

Personalities: Josef Masopust
(09 February 1931 – 29 June 2015)
Czechoslovak football player and coach

Details from FDC

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Most

Designer: Petr Minka

Release date: Feb 9, 2021

Beauties of our country: Milotice by Kyjov State Castle

FDC details

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Miltoce

Designer: Pavel Sivko

Release date: Feb 9, 2021

Postal Uniforms

1 postcard

Release date: Feb 9, 2021

Joint issue: Visegrad Group (V4)

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

The V4 alliance was inspired by the meeting of three kings in the Hungarian town of Visegrád in 1335, where Hungarian King Charles I Robert of Hungary, Czech King John of Luxembourg, and Polish King Casimir III the Great agreed to work closely together on political and trade matters and to maintain eternal friendship. This step inspired the establishment of another successful Central European initiative 656 years later.

Designer: Agnieszka Sobczyńska

Release date: Feb 15, 2021

Yellow Tip Butterfly 

1 stamp (Definitive), special sheet with 4 butterfly stamps issued 2020-21 

Designer: Jaromír and Libuše Knotek

Release date: Feb 15, 2021

2021 March

Technical Monuments: Negrelli Viaduct

1 stamp, coupon, booklet, FDC, cancel

Negrelli Viaduct (also known as Karlín Viaduct, originally generally referred to as the State-Owned Railway Company Viaduct) was built as a section of the Dresden branch of the Northern State-Owned Railway Company’s Line connecting Olomouc, Prague, and Dresden. The intended project manager was Jan Perner who helped design the line to Dresden and designed also the current shape of Negrelli Viaduct, but he had an accident and died. He was replaced by Alois Negrelli. The contractors were the leading industrial companies Klein Bros and Vojtěch Lanna. The construction costs amounted to one million and a half Austro-Hungarian guldens. 
Future issues – Česká pošta (ceskaposta.cz)

Release date: March 24, 2021

Works of Art on Postage Stamps
Bohumil Zemánek (10 October 1942 – 12 August 1996) – Czech sculptor and restorer

1 stamp, coupon, FDC, cancel

Designer: Zbyněk Kočvar
Previous stamps include 1989 XXV. Karlovy Vary IFF, 1985 10th Biennial Exhibition of Book Illustrations for Children, Bratislava

Release date: March 24, 2021

The first derby AC Sparta – SK Slavia
Czech football club 
125th anniversary of first game

2 stamps, Se-tenant pair, cancel, FDC

Designer: Filip Heyduk from HMS Design studios in Prague
Interesting interview with Heyduk can be read here: Interview with Filip Heyduk | National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (ncsml.org)
Heyduk designed 2020’s stamps honouring front line workers. Also designed 2018 Christmas stamps & Medals and Orders of Czech Republic, 2017 State Symbols, 

Release date: March 24, 2021

Dancing House

The Dancing House, also known as Ginger and Fred is a building completed in 1996 under the initial official name Nationale-Nederlanden Building. [It] is now perceived as Prague’s first post-revolutionary building designed by world’s best architects. It is described as one of Prague’s symbols and a tourist magnet.
Future issues – Česká pošta (ceskaposta.cz)

Designer: Roman Sedlák

Release date: March 24, 2021

Czech stamps 2021 for April

EUROPA: Endangered national wild beasts – wild cat

FDC details

1 stamp, sheet of 6, FDC, cancel

The wildcat is one of Czech rarest mammals. The difference between the wildcat and the domestic cat is readily apparent: the wild species is larger, mostly due to the longer and thicker hair. The fur colour is typically grey-brown to grey-yellow with distinct stripes on the back, legs, and tail. The shape, length, and the way the wild and the domestic species hold the tail also differ. The wildcat has a larger head, clearly smaller ears, and long sensitive whiskers.

In the Czech Republic, the wildcat usually lives in deciduous or mixed forests in low-lying mountainous or hilly areas. What it needs is a place to hide in, such as rock crevices, cavities in old massive trees, or abandoned fox and badger burrows. Future issues – Česká pošta (ceskaposta.cz)

Designer: Jaromír and Libuše Knotkovi
Previous designs: EUROPA: National Birds – Common kingfisher and the 2020 Songbirds around us series I, II & III and Honeybees as well as numerous wildlife issues over the past 6 years.

Jaromír Knotek was born on 18 February 1949 in Kladno. He is a Czech painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, whose art includes scientific illustrations. He and his wife, illustrator Libuše Knotková, also designed many postage stamps.

Libuše Knotková was born on 23 May 1949. Her father, Ladislav Jirka, made a significant contribution to the history and development of Czech stamp design.

Libuše and Jaromír Knotek resumed the family tradition and designed multiple Czech stamps as well as drawings for first day covers 
Issue Plan of Czech Postage Stamp Issues 2020, p. 13

Release date: April 21, 2021

Rare rock – formations
Dívčí kameny rock formation

Detail from cover

Designer: Adolf Absolon Historia Postalis – ETC – Ivan Leiš – ADOLF ABSOLON
Absolon has designed over 30 stamps for Czech post. 

Release date: April 21, 2021

Tourism

7 stamps + 8 coupons, souvenir sheet

Designer: Mikuláš Kavan

Release date: April 21, 2021

2021 May

Personalities: Gustav Brom | Czech big band leader, arranger, clarinetist and composer

1 stamp, FDC, cancel 

Designer: Michal Novák

Release date: May 05, 2021

Ramsar Wetlands Convention

Details from FDC

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Adam Kaspar

Release date: May 05, 2021

2021 stamps June

Czech design: Bořek Šípek
Czech architect and designer

1 stamps, sheet of 4

Stamps theme is “glass artwork from Prague Castle”

Designer: Pavel Sivko

Release date: June 9, 2021

Beauties of our country: Jezeří State Castle

Stamps

Souvenir sheet

FDCs

Details of engravings on FDCs

Jezeří Chateau & Vlčí jámy ravine

2 stamps, souvenir sheet, 2 FDCs, 2 cancels

 Designer: Adolf Absolon

Engraver: Martin Srb

Release date: June 9, 2021

Slovácký – annual folk festival held in Kyjov 

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Anna Khunová

Release date: June 23, 2021

Tomcat Mikeš ( J. Lada)
Story of a little black cat who can talk by Josef Lada, Czech painter, illustrator and writer

Designer: Pavel Hrach
Engraver: Václav Fajt

This image of the country life in the early 20th century was greatly inspired by Lada’s childhood spent in the small village called Hrusice. The main character of the book is the local shoemaker’s son Joey and his animal friends, mostly Nico, a small black cat who learnt to walk and speak. Nico selflessly taught his other friends. As soon as Joey’s father finished a pair of boots for Nico, he pulled them on and never spoilt the fun. He went to the school and enjoyed numerous funny adventures with his friends. He travelled far and wide with a circus, but he was happy to return home where he found Iggy, the white disarmingly naughty and adorable kitten Granny adopted to feel less sad after the sudden disappearance of Nico. The numerous stories portray the modest life of small-scale farmers and craftsmen. Future issues – Česká pošta (ceskaposta.cz)

Release date: June 23, 2021

Czech stamps 2021 stamps Sept

Milovice Nature Reserve

FDCs

maxi cards

4 stamps, souvenir sheet, 3 FDCs, 4 cancels

• Blue Bitter Rebel Butterfly
• Grazing herd of European bison
• Pratur
• Wild horses

Designer: Jaromír and Libuše Knotk
Engraver: Martin Serb

Release date: Sept 8, 2021

Portrait of Italian poet Dante Alighieri

2 stamps, souvenir sheet of 4 stamps, FDC, cancel

Designer: Marina Richter

Release date: Sept 8, 2021

EXPO 2021 Dubai

1 stamp, souvenir sheet, FDC, cancel

Release date: Jan Jiskra

Release date: Sept 8, 2021

Puppies

2 stamps, booklet of 10

Designer: Jitka Mašínová

Release date: Sept 8, 2021

October

Jiřina Šejbalová and Bohumil Záhorský
Series: Czech actors and actresses:

2 stamps, souvenir sheet, 2 FDCs, cancel

Jiřina Sheibalová | Biography of | ČSFD.cz (csfd.cz)

Bohuš Záhorský | ČSFD.cz (csfd.cz)

Designer: Jan Maget

Release date: Oct 6, 2021

Wikov 7/28 Super Sport 

1 stamp

Wikov 1930 (classiccarcatalogue.com)

Designer: Jiri Rameš

Release date: Oct 6, 2021

CZECH TENNIS, 2021

25 stamps on souvenir sheet

Designer: Tomáš Říha

Release date: Oct 6, 2021

František Ronovský

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

František Ronovský painter and graphic artist – biography (vysusil.eu)

FDC designer: Jaroslav Tvrdoň

Release date: Oct 20, 2021

Theodor Pištěk

2 stamps, souvenir sheet, 2 FDC, cancel

• Theodor Pištěk: ECCE HOMO, 1983, private collection
• Theodor Pištěk: Self-Portrait by Window II, 1981, Gallery Collett

Czech painter, costume designer and scenographer won an Oscar Amadeus costumes.

Release date: Oct. 20, 2021

Czech stamps 2021 stamps Nov

Saint Ludmila

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Karel Zeman
Engraver: Miloš Ondráček

Release date: Nov 10, 2021

Jan Kotěra Czech architect, artist, and interior designer

3 stamps on a souvenir sheet, FDC, cancel

Jan Kotěra | Architects | Královéhradecký architektonický manuál (hradcekralove.cz)

Designer: John Kavan

Release date: Nov 10, 2021

Karel Stýblo and vaccine against tuberculosis

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Renáta Fučíková

Release date: Nov 10, 2021

Kaja Saudek: Muriel

1 stamp

Designer: Otakar Karlas

Release date: Nov 10, 2021

Christmas 2021

1 stamp

Designer: Pavel Sivko

Release date: November 10, 2021

TGM in Israel – Joint Czech-Israeli stamp

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Theme: Masaryk’s kibbutch

Designer: David Ben-Hador

Release date: November 30, 2021

Infant Jesus of Prague 

1 stamp

History of the Infant Jesus of Prague (infantprague.org)

Designer: Zdeňka Kudrnová

Release date: November 30, 2021

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