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 Dali 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".

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 (lit. '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.