Moriz Melzer, originally from Bohemia, moved to Berlin in 1909. He was a co-founder of the November Group and worked with the Berlin Secession. Melzer's artwork combines naïvely poetic elements with constructivist and cubist influences, and he preferred to work with the monotype technique. His use of the colored linocut and oil paint on the plate bottom, transferred to Japanese paper, gives his monotypes the character of a painting. His works often feature female semi-nudes in bright colors with impasto pigments on the paper surface. Rolf Roeingh described Melzer's files as retaining the diversity of the experience of nature with an austere brevity of vocabulary. The text mentions an exhibition catalog from Galerie Archivarion in Berlin in 1949 as a source.

Moritz Melzer is born in 1877 in Albendorf, Bohemia. In 1891 he was trained as a porcelain painter and draughtsman at the School of Applied Arts in Gablonz. From 1903-1908 he studied at the Academy of Arts in Weimar under Ludwig von Hofmann, Max Thedy and Hans Olde.

Together with Georg Tappert Melzer founded a school of Fine and Applied Arts, followed by trips to Paris and Florence. Melzer was a member of the Berlin Secession, and co-founder of the New Secession in 1910 as well as the November Group in 1918.

Since 1921 he worked as teacher at the Municipal School of Art in Berlin and became a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the Deutscher Künstlerbund. In 1937 his works were labeled as ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis and were eventually banished from the museums. Melzer died in 1966.