A student of Toon Dupuis, Gra Rueb lived in Paris for some years to learn from noted sculptor Émile-Antoine Bourdelle. Returning to Den Haag she became a profile producer of statues, busts and plaques. Noted works include a statue of the boy from "Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates" with his finger in a dyke (in Spaarndam) and busts of Queen Wilhelmina and her husband (Rotterdam City Hall). Rueb's most interesting work from an Olympic perspective is her 1928 memorial statue for Frederik, Baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken, the first Dutch IOC member and first Dutch NOC president. It portrays a man giving the Olympic salute. This makes the statue slightly controversial, as the action resembles the Nazi salute.
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