Blocher school
The Blocher School for Interior Architecture and Communication Design in Munich is a private, state-recognized (interior design) and approved (communication design) vocational school . It is located behind the Ostbahnhof in the new Werksviertel.
The school was founded in 1915 by Minni Bosshard and Karl Blocherer. Today she is in the third generation of Karl Frhr. Loeffelholz von Colberg, the grandson of Karl Blocherer, was headed. In addition to the subject of communication design, interior design can also be studied at an intermediate level . The Blocher School is the only vocational school in Germany that offers this. Thanks to close cooperation with the London Universities of London Metropolitan University and Middlesex University , Blocherer graduates also have the opportunity to acquire the internationally recognized Bachelor's degree.
The Blocher School is a member of MedienCampus Bayern , the umbrella organization for media education and training in Bavaria.
Interior design course
Admission requirements: General university entrance qualification or intermediate school leaving certificate as well as participation in a written entrance examination. Proof of a six-month carpentry internship before the start of studies or participation in the carpentry course during the entire training.
Start of studies: March and September
Duration of training: 6 semesters, after passing the final exam the graduate is entitled to use the professional title “State-certified assistant for interior design”.
Job description : The activity of the interior designer includes the creative, technical and economic planning of private and public spaces through architectural means, room extension, room furnishing, staging with light and sound design or by presenting a message in the room. It can be used in interior / architecture offices, in the area of trade fair, exhibition and shop construction as well as, through numerous cross-connections to design, also in specialist companies in interior construction, stage design, product design, furniture design and vehicle design.
Communication design course
Admission requirements : intermediate educational qualification as well as proof of talent by submitting 15 to 20 personally designed works.
Start of studies: mid-February and mid-September
Duration of training: The standard period of study is 6 semesters.
Job description: The professional assignment of the communication designer takes place as a self-employed person or employee in advertising agencies, publishing houses, industrial companies or graphic studios.
History of the Blocher School
The beginnings of the school can be traced back to the apprenticeship days of Minni Bosshard and Karl Blocherer - he was Franz von Stuck's master student . In the opinion of their teachers at the Königlich Bayerischen Kunstgewerbeschule and the Kunstakademie, both were so excellent students that they were advised to pass on their knowledge and skills to other students.
Both took up this suggestion. The first students soon populated the newly rented studio of a garden house on Munich's Gabelsberger Strasse to prepare for the exams for textile design and free painting under expert guidance. A separate class for commercial graphics followed.
The Blocher School established itself very quickly as an institution that was an indispensable part of the art-friendly Schwabing of those years.
In 1931 Karl Blocherer received a call to America as a well-known painter, chairman of the Munich artists' association and teacher and taught at a college in New York State, while his wife ran the school alone. The main focus of training was now on commercial graphics; Free painting, however, was always Karl Blocherer's favorite child, despite the fact that it was “unemployed”.
The school survived the Nazi era, which was now breaking in, relatively unaffected by state interference, although numerous foreign and Jewish students from neighboring countries, but also from America, attended the school.
When the school building lay in ruins after 1945, the solidarity between teachers and students and the continuing attractiveness of the training once again proved to be a blessing. In order to provide something in return for the promised admission, the students tossed the entire, huge pile of rubble aside. The American authorities also showed themselves willing to cooperate by procuring urgently needed utensils so that school operations could continue in alternative quarters.
The school was expanded to include interior design when Annemarie von Loeffelholz had successfully completed her architecture studies at the Technical University of Munich and fulfilled her parents' ardent wish to take over the school one day. This branch has been officially recognized since 1977.
The Blocher School is currently run by the third generation of Karl von Loeffelholz.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '22.4 " N , 11 ° 35' 44.2" E