He was a member of the Bornholm school of painters and a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts .
In 1920, he visited Bornholm for the first time where the natural colours and distinctive light influenced his landscapes .
[2][3] Between 1927 and 1931, he performed the large painted ceiling decoration in the royal hall at Christiansborg Palace.
He decorated a number of other buildings including Christiansborg, the city hall in Aarhus and the windows of Sankt Nicolai Church in Svendborg.
[4] Iversen was exceptionally diversified in his art work which covered oils, frescos, watercolours, mosaics and glass painting.