

In 1936, they moved to Paris.Īt the urging of an editor at Gallimard, a French publishing company, Rey worked with Hans to create a story from some humorous drawings he had done for a Paris periodical. Together, they started Brazil's first advertising agency, and in 1935 they were married.

Rey was then making a living selling bathtubs. In Rio, she also met up again with Hans Augusto Rey, with whom she had been acquainted for a time in Hamburg. In the early 1930s, she moved first to London, England, and later to Rio de Janeiro, where she took jobs as a reporter and a copywriter. A talented artist and photographer, she held several exhibits of her watercolor paintings in Berlin. Her first job was as a reporter and copywriter in Berlin, Germany. In 1927, she attended the famous Bauhaus in Dessau and spent the following two years studying at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art. Margret Rey was born on May 16, 1906, in Hamburg, Germany, the daughter of Gertrude Rosenfeld Waldstein and Felix Waldstein, a member of the German Parliament. Shalleck, based on "Curious George" film series: Curious George and the Dump Truck (1984) Curious George and the Pizza (1985) Curious George Goes to a Costume Party (1986) Curious George Goes Fishing (1987) Curious George at the Beach (1988) Curious George and the Dinosaur (1989) Curious George Goes to a Toy Store (1990). Raffy and the Nine Monkeys (1939) Curious George (1941) Elizabite: The Adventures of a Carnivorous Plant (1942) Curious George Takes a Job (1947) Curious George Rides a Bike (1952) Curious George Gets a Medal (1957) Curious George Flies a Kite (1958) Curious George Learns the Alphabet (1963) Curious George Goes to the Hospital (1966) Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World (2000).Ĭo-editor with Allan J.

Rey) Spotty (1945) Pretzel and the Puppies (1946) Billy's Picture (1948). Born Margret Elizabeth Waldstein in Hamburg, Germany, on died of a heart attack in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Decemdaughter of Felix Wald-stein (a member of the German Parliament) and Gertrude (Rosenfeld) Waldstein attended the Bauhaus in Dessau, 1927 Dusseldorf Academy of Art, 1928–29 University of Munich, 1930–31 married H(ans) A(ugusto) Rey (1898–1977, a writer and illustrator), in 1935 no children.

German-born American author, with her husband, of the "Curious George" children's book series.
