Title: History of graphic design
Content:  In the second half of the 19th century William Morris's Kelmscott Press produced many historicist graphic designs, and created a collectors market for this kind of art. In Oxford he associated with artists like Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Together they formed the Pre-Raphaelites group, and their ideas influenced the modern graphic design considerably. In 1917, Frederick H. Meyer, director and instructor at the California School of Arts and Crafts, taught a class entitled “Graphic Design and Lettering”.
Title: 1819 in art
Content: January 6 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (died 1886) ; January 9 – William Powell Frith, English genre painter (died 1909) ; February 8 – John Ruskin, English artist and critic (died 1900) ; February 16 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcut artist (died 1875) ; February 23 – John Webb Singer, English art founder and collector (died 1904) ; March 20 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (died 1869) ; June 3 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (died 1891) ; June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (died 1877) ; June 16 – Thomas Skinner, English etcher (poisoned 1881) ; June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, American portrait painter (died 1877) ; June 28 – Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter (died 1916) ; September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, French painter (died 1856) ; December 19 – Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter (died 1895) ; date unknown ; Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (died 1857) ; Edwin Hayes, British marine watercolourist (died 1904) 
Title: The History of Graphic Design
Content:  The History of Graphic Design, Volume 1 explores the development of graphic design from the end of the 19th Century to the end of the 1950s. It covers historically significant design styles like Futurism and the New Typography, and includes biographies of designers such as Henry van de Velde, Karel Teige, and James Pryde and William Nicholson.
Title: Poster artist
Content:  names are still unknown of some prolific poster designers working in the 1910s in Anglo-Saxon countries. Art Déco and more generally Modern Art, let many poster designers come to greater attention and to express their talents in this medium. Charles Gesmar, a protégé of Mistinguett since 1916, raised posters to high art, and his posters became enormously famous afterwards. In the 1920s, poster art became a cornerstone of graphic art, with works by artists such as Paul Iribe and Cassandre, who established Raymond Savignac. Around this time, photomontage also came to the fore, allowing poster artists to combine photography and typography. In the 1950s, techniques of xerography led to a new school of art which came to influence 
Title: 1919 in art
Content: January 22 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (b. 1853) ; February 18 – Antonin Carlès, French sculptor (b. 1851) ; February 27 – Robert Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1848) ; March 24 – Franz Metzner, German sculptor (b. 1870) ; March 25 – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (b. 1881) (suicide) ; May 2 – Evelyn De Morgan, English painter (born 1855) ; May 13 – Helen Hyde, American etcher and engraver (b. 1868) ; August 9 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (b. 1847) ; November 18 – John Dibblee Crace, British interior decorator (b. 1838) ; December 2 – Henry Clay Frick, American founder of the Frick Collection (b. 1849) ; December 3 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter (b. 1841) ; December 18 – James Coutts Michie, Scottish painter b. 1859) ; Full date unknown – Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (b 1844) 
Title: 1899 in art
Content: January 20 ; Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (died 1990) ; Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (died 1972) ; February 15 ; Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (died 1997) ; Grethe Jürgens, German painter (died 1981) ; February 22 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (died 1986) ; March 20 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (died 1965) ; April 3 – Borislav Bogdanović, Serbian portraitist (died 1970) ; April 27 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (died 1994) ; May 22 ; Kosta Hakman, Serbian painter (died 1961) ; Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (died 1977) ; June 2 – Lotte Reiniger, 
Title: Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Content:  expressionists. ; Lisa Nankivil: Best known for her non-representational striped-format oil paintings and abstract monoprints. ; Patricia Olson: Graphic designer, painter, feminist artist, and educator whose works are categorized as figurative art. ; Clara Elsene Peck: Illustrator and painter known for her illustrations of women and children in the early 20th century. ; Tania del Rio: Cartoonist working mainly in comic books who has worked for Archie Comics. ; James Rosenquist: Artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. ; John Howard Sanden: Portrait artist whose subjects include former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. ; 
Title: Alice Russell Glenny
Content:  the United States when Harper's Magazine commissioned Franco-Swiss artist Eugène Grasset to create covers in 1889, 1891, 1892, and in April 1893. Exposure to these international styles ignited a "poster craze" in which American graphic designers developed a style commonly "depicting bourgeois scenes" and utilizing more stylized lines filled with blocks of color, similar to the designs of artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. Through the proliferation of print culture as well as industrial expansion, American millionaires such as Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick began to support education and culture, enabling the U.S. to be a fertile ground for the creation of 
Title: Royal Designers for Industry
Content: Edward McKnight Kauffer, Commercial art, 1936 ; Alvar Aalto, General design, 1947 ; Franco Albini, Interiors, exhibitions & furniture, 1971 ; Gordon Andrews, General design, 1987 ; Saul Bass, Film & TV graphics, 1964 ; Herbert Bayer, Graphic design, 1984 ; Richard Buckminster Fuller, Architecture & design, 1980 ; Nanna Ditzel, Product design, 1996 ; Charles Eames, Furniture, exhibitions & interiors, 1960 ; Jean-Michel Folon, Illustration, 1981 ; André François, Graphics 1974 ; Shigeo Fukada, Graphic design, 1986 ; Alexander Girard, Interiors, exhibitions & furnishing textiles, 1965 ; Walter Gropius, General design, 1947 ; Edward Hald, Glass, 1939 ; Walter Herdeg, Graphic design, 1976 ; Christian Joachim, Pottery, 1939 ; CL 
Title: 1891 in art
Content: January 27 – Jervis McEntee, American painter of the Hudson River School (born 1828) ; January 30 – Charles Joshua Chaplin, French painter and engraver (born 1825) ; January 31 – Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French classicist painter (born 1815) ; February 9 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (born 1819) ; March 19 – Ernest Hoschedé, French businessman and collector of Impressionist paintings (born 1837) ; March 26 – Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, Dutch watercolorist (born 1822) ; March 29 – Georges Seurat, French Post-Impressionist painter (born 1859) ; April 5 – Daniel Cottier, Scottish-born artist and designer (born 1837) ; April 14 – Carlos Luis 

Question: who was the 19th c. artist who was both painter and graphic designer?
Answer: René Georges Hermann-Paul.