That doesn't look like a statue with a sense of humour. It looks like a statue honoring the partisant army during WWII. In many european cities these guerillas took to the sewers and attempted to undermine the occupying forces from there. This looks like a sculptors representation of that given the cape and the traditionally german cape around the uniform. Just my 2 cents...could be wrong.
-W
Originally Posted by Gargoyle
We did a lot of that on the Washington Cathedral. One carver in particular, John Guarante, caricatured a number of the other carvers and cathedral workers. He did one of Vincent Palumbo (who at the time was a young carver, but later was the master carver), squatting on the side of a buttress, carving but looking over his shoulder,
whistling at passing girls. (4th image down on that page) On the other side of the buttress was the cathedral dean, looking agast at Vincent's behavior.
Malcolm Harlow once started carving a gargoyle based on a woman he was dating, until he discovered she was two-timing him. She ended up with a skull face and medusa hair.