Overview

• The Landgericht Köln rejected the 86-year-old artist’s emergency injunction seeking to block removal.
• Judges said placing the car on the Zeughaus treppenturm in 1991 was not a copyright-protectable creative act, noting its first display on another tower in 1989.
• The city plans to take down the roughly four-ton, gilded Ford Fiesta with wings from the museum staircase tower near the cathedral.
• Officials cite a latent, long-term risk to structural stability and point to their traffic-safety obligations.
• The decision authorizes removal, with further legal remedies still available to the artist.