She attended school in Trencsén, traveling there daily and supplemented her education by reading classic literature including Goethe, Heine and Schiller, from her grandfather's library.

[4] From 1914 to 1918, she attended the Girl's Gymnasium in Trencsén[1] and was influenced by the images of wounded soldiers of World War I and the Russian Revolution, prisoners and the weary populace at the beginning of the Czechoslovak Republic.

Her formal training there did not last beyond 1932, when the Nazi regime closed the art school, but her work from this point further was influenced by the experimentation and more complex composition, which she learned at Bauhaus.

[13] Along with Zsigmondi Borbálát, Rosa Neyt, Fric Stroht and others, Blühová founded the group Sociofoto to develop sociologically oriented and social documentary photography.

[14] Blühová earned the nickname the "Bratislavan Gertrude Stein" and staged several small exhibitions to raise funds for the activities of the International Anti-Fascist Solidarity Federation.

[12] She published and disseminated communist materials in a back room of the bookstore to hide from censors and assisted refugees who fled from Austria, Germany, and Hungary with food, clothing and shelter, before passing them on to other activists.

[15] From 1937 to 1939, Blühová took pottery classes with Julia Horová and studied film at the School of Applied Arts [sk] (Slovak: Škola umeleckých remesiel (ŠUR)) with Karel Plicka.

Escaping to the mountains of Malá Fatra she lived in a remote cottage and later found work using false papers under the name of Elena Fischerová in Humenné at a fuel factory.