Bauhaus and the historical development of graphic design

Abstract

The combination of the Academy of Fine Arts with the School of Arts and Crafts, following the coordination of Gropius, with the intention of unifying activities and eliminating contradictions between artists and craftsmen, allowing great changes in development historical graphic design. Based on this postulate, this article aimed to study the Bauhaus school and the historical development of graphic design. For this purpose, it was considered a hermeneutic methodology and whose theoretical analysis allowed to generate among its results that there was concurrency of the bauhaus school in Germany, in France and other European countries opted for a different movement. After the war, the decorative style of modernism began to be replaced by simpler, more straightened strokes, more in harmony with the flat aesthetics and lower cost of industrial designs.