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Looking out across the water: an unnamed „Seestück“ (seascape) on a billboard on the quay wall next to the bridge at Wildenbruch. Between 1845 and 1850, the 10.3-kilometre-long Landwehr Canal was built here to transport building materials for the growing city of Berlin and to relieve pressure on the River Spree. At the same time, seascapes developed in marine painting – freed from the depiction of ships, shipwrecks or sea battles – into a modern type of image. The empty seascape and the canal in question are effects of the same thing: an expression of industrial-urban modernity.