Cologne – “Eistüte” or the Dropped Cone

The ‘Eistüte’ or the Dropped Cone, is one of the city’s more whimsical pieces of public art, perched precariously on the corner of the Neumarkt Galerie shopping mall. Created by the legendary Pop Art couple Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, the sculpture was installed in March 2001. The inverted vanilla scoop is made of reinforced plastic and stainless steel and was designed to be a response to commercialism and the rather ubiquitous nature of the ice cream stand in the city. There’s something rather charming that Primark have moved in underneath it.