Bruno Maximus
Bruno Maximus (born 1970 in Jyväskylä, Finland) is the pseudonym of an anonymous Finnish art painter. He calls his artistic style "hypnorealism", and says it is related to the style of Salvador Dalí in his younger years, albeit without "masochism". The style has been described as "consisting of elements that are realistic by themselves, but which are combined and stretched to create weird and funny surrealistic events, with everything in bright colors and exhibiting a naivistically good mood", surrealistic without "violence", and as "dream-like".
Bruno Maximus
- Born
- 1970
- Nationality
- Finland
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- Finnish
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Maximus has lived and worked in Australia, Brazil, England, Portugal, France and Hungary. In addition to his hundreds of paintings, he is known for his contribution to a book titled Joulupukin lomamatkat (Santa's holiday travels) with Sinikka Salokorpi, and designing stamps for the Finnish postal service. In 2020, he also began to restore a Christ themed painting, presumed to have been painted in the 1600s, drawing comments from The Holy See, the Italian Embassy in Finland and Ateneum.
The recorded working language is Finnish.
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- Bruno Maximus toi 30 työtään Jyväskylän laajaan näyttelyyn. Suur-Jyväskylän Lehti. 6 April 2021.
- Bronda takoo Maximuksesta hittiä. Iltasanomat. 11 November 1999.
- Hypnorealistinen Bruno Maximus saa taulunaiheet unista. Helsingin Sanomat. 11 January 1995.
- Bruno Maximus lähetti joulupukin lomalle. Helsingin Sanomat. 27 November 1999.
- Eukonkanto ja suopotkupallo pääsevät postimerkkeihin. Helsingin Sanomat. 24 April 2013.
- Taidetta hämärän rajamailta - Rohkeat maalarit tunnelmoivat postfreudilaisessa hengessä. Helsingin Sanomat. 28 January 1994.
- Unen ja toden rajalla. Helsingin Sanomat. 10 May 2001.
- Esihistoriallinen jätski ja muita olioita. Helsingin Sanomat. 7 March 2002.
- Valuvan muodon mestari. Helsingin Sanomat. 4 March 2004.
- Hauet lentävät puutarhassa oliivipuiden katveessa – Bruno Maximus toi huumoria Tuusulaan. Keski-Uusimaa. 19 June 2017.
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