Max Fleischer (painter)

Richard Paul Max Fleischer (4 July 1861, Lipine in Oberschlesien, Kingdom of Prussia – 3 April 1930, Menton, France) was a German painter and bryologist.

On Java, along with his artistic duties, he collected regional botanical specimens and conducted investigations of the island's mosses.

Fleischer distributed several exsiccatae, among them Musci frondosi Archipelagi Indici exsiccati and – together with Carl Friedrich Warnstorf – Bryotheca Europaea Meridionalis.

[1][2][3] During his time spent in the Dutch East Indies, he also learned the technique of creating batik prints from vegetable dyes.

[4][5] After several years on Java, he traveled to New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand and South America, prior to returning to Germany in 1903.