Galerie Paul Prouté

Philippe Mohlitz, whose real name is Émile-Philippe Magaudoux, was born in 1941 near Bordeaux. In 1965, he enrolled in the City of Paris’s printmaking classes led by Jean Delpech, where he studied alongside Erik Desmazières and François Houtin. Combining a fantastical and religious imagination reminiscent of surrealism with an exceptionally meticulous engraving technique, his work soon began to attract attention. In 1971, Mohlitz won the Florence Gould Prize and became a resident artist at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. In 2000, he was awarded the Léon-Georges Baudry Grand Prize by the Taylor Foundation.