Petra (sculpture)

The life-size sculpture, made of silicone and metal, is of a woman in armored olive-green German riot control police uniform, wearing a sidearm.

"[1] In advance of its exhibition in Dresden in January 2011, Walldorf's teacher Eberhard Bosslet informed the country's largest tabloid newspaper, Bild, about the potentially controversial sculpture.

The Minister of the Interior of Saxony, Markus Ulbig, was quoted by Bild as saying: "This so-called work of art is a shame.

"[5] The German police union also criticized the sculpture as insulting and as "breaching the limits of artistic freedom.

In an interview with Der Spiegel, he said that he merely wondered, after seeing male police officers on riot duty relieve themselves, how policewomen would deal with this problem.