Born and still residing in Bordeaux, Mohlitz became one of the leading figures for a new generation of French printmakers, including two other artists on this site – Erik Desmazieres and Francois Houtin.

Influenced by Odilon Redon and Rodolphe Bresdin, Phillippe Mohlitz brought to the art of engraving a freedom of line and profusion in detail rarely seen in contemporary etching. A critic wrote of his engravings that he had not seen such detail and luminosity since Durer. Equally impressive is Mohlitz's imagination - in his densely engraved prints he creates a world that is slowly revealed over repeated close viewings, a world that is underpinned by an almost classical preoccupation with, and brilliant execution of, composition and light.

Mohlitz's work can be found in public collections throughout Europe and North America, including the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum. His catalogue raisonné was presented in 1977 with an introduction by Walter Koschatsky, curator of the Albertina in Vienna.