In the same 1910s, the development of Russian Constructivism promoted a fusion of art with design.
What was the first site of the Bauhaus school in Weimar had been built between 1904 and 1911 to house the studio of sculptors from the former Saxon Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts designed by that institute’s director, Art Nouveau architect Henry van de Velde. By 1915, architect Walter Gropius had taken over the school, and it was through the merger four years later of this institution with the Academy of Fine Arts that the new Bauhaus school was formed. In conceptual terms, it grew out of the late nineteenth-century ideal of bringing together the fine and applied arts, and was formed to reform art education. In the same 1910s, the development of Russian Constructivism promoted a fusion of art with design. When the Bauhaus opened its doors, Gropius imagined that it should encompass the totality of artistic media, sculpture and painting, industrial design and graphic design, typography, interior design and architectural design, of course.