why the Blocherer School

Reasons for the Blocherer School

  • Tradition since 1915. Learn at the best school for communication design in Germany with its classic and well-planned curriculum.
  • Passion. Learn with and from our instructors who love their job and can inspire you.
  • Focus. Small classrooms help foster optimal learning experience. We challange and encourage every student according to their individual talents.
  • Intensive dialogue with students and professionals. This is what makes dynamic activities in an educational framework possible.
  • An established base for successful professional advancement. The instruction of widely diversified skills opens doors to different occupational fields with high demand.
  • From “Mittlere Reife” or GCSE to the job of your dreams. All our degrees in communication design are recognized and approved by the state.
  • Practice-oriented curriculum. Our instructors are well-established in professional practice and work in their fields. Learn all that is required for the profession.
  • The Middlesex University in London and the Blocherer School. A one of a kind combination: Professional training at the Blocherer School and a bachelor degree at the the Middlesex University in London.
  • 3 + 1. Blocherer School + Middlesex University = Communication designer in 4 years. The fastest way to an accredited bachelor degree.

Blocherer School History

The Blocherer School in Munich is an educational institution for communication design and interior architecture, established in 1915. The new photography major is our latest addition to the curriculum.

  • 1915 Founding of the School by Wilhelmine Boßhardt after graduating with honors from the Royal Bavarian School for Applied Arts.
  • 1918 Matrimony of Wilhelmine Boßhardt and Karl Blocherer (Masterstudent of Franz v. Stucks). From then on they jointly administer the Blocherer School in the Gabelsbergerstraße in Munich; Faculty departments: painting, advertising art, and textile design.
  • 1931 Karl Blocherer is offered a professorship at the Wells College, N.Y., U.S.A. As a result, a lot of international students attend the Blocherer School. The Bavarian Radio Broadcast interviews Karl Blocherer.
  • 1944 Destruction of school facilities during the war; Lessons resumed in surrogate classrooms in the Prinzenstraße.
  • 1946 Reconstruction of the school under the auspice of the city of Munich.
  • 1957 Expansion and relocation of the school to Zentnerstraße 10; focus of the curriculum on the subject areas of graphic design, painting, and interor architecture.
  • 1966 Acquisition of the school administration by Dipl.Ing. Annemarie Frfr. Loeffelholz von Colberg, born Blocherer and architecture graduate at the TH Munich. The interor architecture program is also further diversified.
  • 1967 The school moves to the new classrooms in Rosenheimer Straße.
  • 1977 State-approved recognition of the interior architecture major.
  • 1980 The Bavarian Order of Merit is awarded to Dipl.Ing. Annemarie Frfr. Loeffelholz von Colberg.
  • 1994 Expansion and relocation of the school to the new classrooms over the rooftops of Munich at Tassiloplatz
  • 2001 Karl v. Loeffelholz is the school headmaster and leads the third generation of the Blocherer School to this day