From Mozart to Gershwin, from Chagall to Mucha, from Oscar Wilde to Lorca, from Duke Ellington to Louis Amstrong. Why were so many artists: writers, painters, architects, composers, musicians, black musicians in the jazz age, attracted to the ideas and ideals of Freemasonry? What was in it for them?
Can we recognize freemason ideals and symbols in their work or in the way they lived? A fascinating subject that is enveloped in a secretive mist
Helen Sijsling
About Helen Sijsling
Helen Sijsling MA (born in Australia, lived in the Netherlands, lives in Spain), MA History of Art (University of Leyden), MA English Literature (Universities of Leyden and Oxford) and MA Educational Management (University of Amsterdam). Helen taught English for the first part of her career to later become management consultant on education, advising secondary schools on educational improvement and training teachers and managers in The Netherlands and the Antilles. Helen is presently Chairman of The Arts Society Nerja and has lectured for many years to The Arts Societies in Europe and many other societies on many different subjects like Zaha Hadid, Ernst Barlach, Moroccan Orientalism, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, but also on many Spanish subjects like Barcelona 1900, Magic Melilla and Ceuta, three different lectures on Flamenco, Cave Art from Sulawesi to Spain, El Greco, Goya, Santiago de Compostella, Juana the Mad.
Helen has sent a short introductory video. Click here to watch it.
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